2025 Topps Shoebox Treasures #15 "Treasures Stamp" #/99

Card Review: 6.8

This card is identical to the base card but for the "Shoebox Treasures" logo on the upper front left of the card.  It also has the foil numbering on the back to show that there were only 99 of these produced (sort of, more on that below).  You may question the large drop off in the score for this card from the 9.5 that I gave the base card.  I think it's deserved.  The "Treasures" stamp adds nothing to the card for me aesthetically and in my view is just a blemish, or worse, almost like an advertisement stuck on the likeness of a classic card.  So I dinged it down.

Also, there weren't 99 of these produced.  There were 198 of these cards made.  Topps just took half of them and stuck a sticker with Tim Wallach's autograph on it to the front of the card.  You can peel the sticker off, and it's the same card.  I know I'm currently in the minority with my position on this, but I don't care, I'm right.  You see it a lot with the buybacks.  An autographed buyback, or a regular card with a "buyback" stamp is not a "new" or unique card.  It's a 1987 Topps (or whatever) with a stamp on it.  How cool that may be is for the collector to decide, but don't tell me it's not a 1987 Topps.

Number of this card in my collection: 1