Thursday, January 31, 2013

Topps Without Borders-1999

I am removing the borders from the Topps designs year by year.

This time it is 1999.

With border:


And without border:


Side by side:


I never was super fond of the whole gold borders in this set. It seemed like the borders were too thick and the actual gold tone was a bit off.

The gold curve at the bottom threw the whole card off, to me at least.

The borderless version has a nice, clean, classic look to it. Simple and elegant.

If they had put the position of the player in the lower left corner it would have been perfect.

I would have loved it if Topps had used this version instead of the one they went with.

Up next, 1998 Topps. Which, surprise, has a gold border.

6 comments:

  1. Wow.....that looks so much better.

    I was never crazy about that year's design.

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    1. It really does look a whole bunch better.

      Probably the biggest difference in the whole series so far that I've done.

      Delete
  2. 99 topps as a set was bad this looks much better

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    1. Agree.

      Too bad the backs were so hard to read as well.

      Delete
  3. Real stadium clubby looking. Never fond of the gold border, but the gold line complements it well.

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