Topps Living Set

[Joliet Jake]

Originally Posted by eldavojohn

Is 833 Carlos Beltran at 1,245 the lowest MLB HoF?

He is.

Second lowest is Billy Wagner at 1,450. In fact, there are 24 Hall of Famers with a print run below 2,000.

[SoCal Topps Now]

Originally Posted by jaredkelley

A new week - This week I got to paint the most massive ginger beard I've ever tackled in my life.

You did an amazing job on this one. My compliments!

[tdubs1010]

If anyone from Topps reads this and cares... please bring prints back... limit them, double the price I don't care. They are print on demand, I am sure you have a contractual issue with who was printing them, but please give us an option to grab them again.

[CanadaShane]

Originally Posted by tdubs1010

If anyone from Topps reads this and cares... please bring prints back... limit them, double the price I don't care. They are print on demand, I am sure you have a contractual issue with who was printing them, but please give us an option to grab them again.

I second that !

[byronscott4ever]

Fanatics can right one of their many wrongs by bringing prints back

[Fsegaud]

I'd like to suggest that if you reach out to Topps for any reason by phone or Email or chat...whatever...make sure to mention that you'd like the Living Fine Art Prints brought back in some fashion. It just needs to be heard from every direction to stand a chance of having them return.

[jaredkelley]

Originally Posted by Fsegaud

I'd like to suggest that if you reach out to Topps for any reason by phone or Email or chat...whatever...make sure to mention that you'd like the Living Fine Art Prints brought back in some fashion. It just needs to be heard from every direction to stand a chance of having them return.

Topps made $9500 from my print purchases alone last year. Seems like there's a way to make the prints justifiable, especially if Topps would include some chase elements in them. The print-on-demand items seem like a safe/low-risk money maker.

At least they confirmed they haven't ruled out completely the resurrection of the prints at some future date. That's something to hope for.

[eldavojohn]

Originally Posted by jaredkelley

Topps made $9500

"made" is maybe not the best verb unless you know something we don't ... grossed, sure

Look I get it, there's no way these prints are viable money wise. After printing and assembling bizarre orders, it's a %&#%ing nightmare and then I'm sure shipping is MINIMUM $10 per order.

So, Jared, if you have any channel of communication with them, what you do is at the calendar start of the year you have them do a two week "PRESALE" of last year's prints that ship in February and shipping is no longer free on any order with even one print in it.

Okay so what will happen? The collectors will buy their prints, you'll get your prints. Topps will raise the profit margins on the products and they can print all the prints in January and be done with it for the rest of the year after they ship. Tell them we need this for NBA as well while you're at it.

It gives them time to double check all the licensing on the players and teams as well.

[jaredkelley]

Originally Posted by eldavojohn

"made" is maybe not the best verb unless you know something we don't ... grossed, sure

Look I get it, there's no way these prints are viable money wise. After printing and assembling bizarre orders, it's a %&#%ing nightmare and then I'm sure shipping is MINIMUM $10 per order.

So, Jared, if you have any channel of communication with them, what you do is at the calendar start of the year you have them do a two week "PRESALE" of last year's prints that ship in February and shipping is no longer free on any order with even one print in it.

Okay so what will happen? The collectors will buy their prints, you'll get your prints. Topps will raise the profit margins on the products and they can print all the prints in January and be done with it for the rest of the year after they ship. Tell them we need this for NBA as well while you're at it.

It gives them time to double check all the licensing on the players and teams as well.

Thank you for the correction..."gross" revenue is a significant distinction.

I love the printapalooza idea. It would also give Topps a year to prepare any player signed prints or other chase parallel prints they may want to add to the mix as random hits. And removing the free shipping makes it even better, from Topps' POV.

The brainstorming in this group is very valuable!

[Joliet Jake]

Topps MLB® Living Set® Card #910 - George Foster - PR: 1,607
George Foster is the Cincinnati Reds 30th franchise and team member featured.
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Topps MLB® Living Set® Card #911 - Andrés Muñoz - PR: 1,256
Andrés Muñoz is the Seattle Mariners 28th franchise and team member, and 60th duplicate and 66th repeat player featured.
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[CanadaShane]

Originally Posted by Joliet Jake

Topps MLB® Living Set® Card #910 - George Foster
George Foster is the Cincinnati Reds 30th franchise and team member featured.
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Topps MLB® Living Set® Card #911 - Andrés Muñoz
Andrés Muñoz is the Seattle Mariners 28th franchise and team member, and 60th duplicate and 66th repeat player featured.
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That George Foster is beauty.

[kidfan9]

That George Foster is beauty

Yep…but…NO PRINT FOR YOU!!!

[kidfan9]

Hey topps!!! Bring back the fine art prints…now!!!

[GabeFarber]

The Foster was a fun one to work on. Here's the full artwork:

[jaredkelley]

Here's the full art for my Andre Muñoz portrait. Enjoy.

[Joliet Jake]

I miss the gray and green underbills on MLB hats. The black is too dark.

[Joliet Jake]

For those of you who have yet to buy an artist-signed card from Jared, I highly recommend doing so. Not only does the signature look fantastic, but the packaging and TLS portrait cards included are incredible.

Jared, the new color variation of the T.L.S. Portrait Variation is like getting a completely separate card with each purchase. Well done!

For the collectors that use TCDb, you can find the original set of 12 cards in the database.

I look forward to the new variations being added.

[astrotrevor]

Cool. Didn’t know these existed. Very close to the vision I had for a mini tobacco LS with the artist inspired backs. Thanks for sharing.

[jaredkelley]

Originally Posted by Joliet Jake

For those of you who have yet to buy an artist-signed card from Jared, I highly recommend doing so. Not only does the signature look fantastic, but the packaging and TLS portrait cards included are incredible.

Jared, the new color vahttps://www.ebay.com/usr/jaredkelleyartriation of the T.L.S. Portrait Variation is like getting a completely separate card with each purchase. Well done!

For the collectors that use TCDb, you can find the original set of 12 cards in the database.

I look forward to the new variations being added.

Thanks - I thought it was time to upgrade that flimsy business card. I appreciate the business.

Also, some may have noticed that my Shop has been cleared out of a lot of artist-signed cards. I decided to move most of the artist-signed cards to eBay. The price point is higher than on my site ($35/ea compared to $25 on my site) to offset some of the fees, but there are bulk order discounts on all the eBay listings.

Moving forward, I plan to let cards sit for 1-2 weeks on my site before migrating the remaining stock to eBay. Hope to have a new batch of artist-signed cards ready this week.

Thanks for the continued support!

[Chihuahuas]

Originally Posted by Joliet Jake

For those of you who have yet to buy an artist-signed card from Jared, I highly recommend doing so. Not only does the signature look fantastic, but the packaging and TLS portrait cards included are incredible.

Jared, the new color variation of the T.L.S. Portrait Variation is like getting a completely separate card with each purchase. Well done!

For the collectors that use TCDb, you can find the original set of 12 cards in the database.

I look forward to the new variations being added.

Thanks for letting me know. I just got a Shoeless card signed but had not opened yet.

Jared continues to innovate🫡

Thanks for adding to the collecting experience Jared!

I might have to send this one to PSA now they are finally autheticating Jared’s signature (finally).

[Joliet Jake]

Originally Posted by Chihuahuas

Thanks for letting me know. I just got a Shoeless card signed but had not opened yet.

Jared continues to innovate🫡

Thanks for adding to the collecting experience Jared!

I might have to send this one to PSA now they are finally autheticating Jared’s signature (finally).

I’ve been thinking about sending my artist signed cards in, but I can’t bring myself to break the sticker seal. The packaging looks really good, and I’m hoping Gabe’s artist-signed cards are in a sticker-sealed ONE-TOUCH like the cards from Jared and Angel. They all look really nice in a group.

[jaredkelley]

Originally Posted by Joliet Jake

I’ve been thinking about sending my artist signed cards in, but I can’t bring myself to break the sticker seal. The packaging looks really good, and I’m hoping Gabe’s artist-signed cards are in a sticker-sealed ONE-TOUCH like the cards from Jared and Angel. They all look really nice in a group.

If one were to carefully peel back my one-touch label, it would be a good way to encase the COA for any card that is sent to PSA for signature authentication/slabbing. Would be a nice way to pair the original one-touch case with the slabbed card. Fun thought.

[Joliet Jake]

Originally Posted by jaredkelley

If one were to carefully peel back my one-touch label, it would be a good way to encase the COA for any card that is sent to PSA for signature authentication/slabbing. Would be a nice way to pair the original one-touch case with the slabbed card. Fun thought.

I like this idea.

I was planning to put the COA for all signed cards in a toploader to be paired with the ONE-TOUCH. I'm not sure if I want to group the thank you cards together, or keep them with the card they came with.

Jared, are the thank you cards the same size as Mini A&G?

[jaredkelley]

Originally Posted by Joliet Jake

I like this idea.

I was planning to put the COA for all signed cards in a toploader to be paired with the ONE-TOUCH. I'm not sure if I want to group the thank you cards together, or keep them with the card they came with.

Jared, are the thank you cards the same size as Mini A&G?

Slightly larger; my TY business cards are 2x3.5 inches.

[Joliet Jake]

Topps MLB® Living Set® Card #912 - Cam Schlittler
Cam Schlittler is the New York Yankees 54th franchise and team member, and 303rd rookie featured.
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Topps MLB® Living Set® Card #913 - Vince Coleman
Vince Coleman is the St. Louis Cardinals 37th franchise and team member featured.
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