Each year Topps puts out a solid
Gypsy Queen set and this year is no different. Boxes are selling around $90 in
most places and when you consider you get 24 packs per box and you are
guaranteed 2 autographs and 2 relics you can see that this is really a pretty
decent deal.
This year I am totally digging the
Original Art Patch cards, this is a 50 card checklist and each card is a 1/1 so
this is a very limited insert. The insert ratio breaks down to 1:11,880 packs.
The same two artists who worked on this year’s set also did last year’s cards,
Monty Sheldon and Dave Hobrecht. Both artists are well known for their sports
art and have both worked with Topps previously. Sheldon works in paint and the 28
cards the he created are colored while Dave Hobrecht works with pencil,
charcoal and pastel and created his 22 cards in his well-known black and white
styling.
A number of these Original Art
Patches have shown up for sale since Gypsy Queen went live and from what I have
seen they are easily topping $300 each. Currently the Chipper Jones card is up
for auction and it is at $76 with 21 hours remaining. Last week the Warren Spahn card sold at $464.98.
Some other recent cards include a
Mariano Rivera and Tim Lincecum, both at $400, Justin Verlander at $380 and
Felix Hernandez at $324.99. What is interesting is that of the 6 cards I have
seen sell, 5 of them are Monty’s and only one, the Hernandez card, was from
Hobrecht.
Here are a couple of other cards
from both artists so you can take a look. I am also including a photograph of
all 28 Monty Sheldon cards at the bottom of the post.
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