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Tag Archives: custom cards
More tinkering with the 70-71 customs
Fixing the 1970-71 Topps/OPC hockey set is becoming a minor obsession. All the way back here (images on the link are dead, so it’s of limited use until I fix them) I noted that the set was basically an inverted 1971 … Continue reading
Posted in Card Design, OPC, Vintage Hockey
Tagged 1970-71 OPC hockey, bobby orr, custom cards, gerry cheevers, gordie howe
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More mucking about with Orr customs
Just a thought – what if the knee had given us a couple more seasons? This might have been part of 1980-81 OPC… Orr, all things being equal, should have played until at least 1983. I should do the rest … Continue reading
Minor Monkeying with the custom Gordie
When I made this custom on Friday, I mentioned that I still thought the colours were a bit off and this was noticeable in the green of the Hartford sweater. I found that all the Whalers images in that set … Continue reading
The Gordie I never got to pull
I missed pulling Gordie Howe cards by a year. Now, this also means I missed pulling Wayne Gretzky rookie cards straight out of the pack, but I rationalize this by realizing I would have surely dumped them all in trades. … Continue reading
Cleaning up the ’70-71 hockey design
I’ve never found the 1970-71 Topps/OPC design to be particularly effective. It might even be the ugliest design they ever came up with. I think it’s certainly top five, anyway. This is unfortunate, since as I showed a long time back, … Continue reading
Posted in Card Design, OPC, Vintage Hockey
Tagged 1970-71 OPC hockey, bobby orr, custom cards
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A new final card for Bobby Orr
Bobby Orr retired November 8, 1978. This was before the OPC print run was complete (cards usually hit the stores somewhere around January, if I recall correctly), so there was time to make a special retirement card for him. He … Continue reading
Diamond Cuts and Wax Stains 