Year: 2011
Manufacturer: Topps
Set: Gypsy Queen
Card Number: 61
Card Type: Mini parallel
Parallel set: Sepia
Card Attributes: Serial Numbered
Serial Number: 81/99
I'm a sucker for gimmicks. And the gimmick I'm the biggest sucker for are the tobacco mini's. I don't know why. Maybe it's the homage to the birth of baseball cards and baseball card collecting. Pacific may have been the first to put out the first tobacco sized mini insert, but it was Topps' 2002 206 set that really hooked me. I'll be honest they are one of my favorite inserts and parallels. And I really love it when I can chase cards with Robin on them. In 2011, Topps decided to cash in on the retro card market it had helped pioneer by creating a new retro-vintage card set with Gypsy Queen. Robin was include in the set, and many since, and of course that means mini parallels and parallels of those parallels. The 2011 set was a direct homage to the original Gypsy Queen sets from the late 1800's and the sepia parallel really kind of captures that. Sure the black border parallels look cool, but I think the sepia has a great vintage feel.
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