Print run for 2016 Topps Heritage Gum Stained back cards
 

I have been trying to find information on these but to no avail. Does anyone on here know what the print run for 2016 Topps Heritage Gum Stained back cards is???

They don't normally release a print run for those. if you ask on Blowout, someone will probably calculate a reasonable number based on pack odds and number of cases; some products have hobby, retail, jumbo, and super jumbo so you have to add them all up.
If none of the "1 per case" cards are numbered, the estimate will be off.

Although I have put together all the Heritage sets I stopped doing the variations in 2011 because of increasing numbers and or scarcity. Were the gum stains applied mechanically or do a bunch of folks rub gum over the cards ? :)

I usually have a few gum stained cards in my older sets. Some folks try to get it off but I like them that way. Gives them character.

so you think it would probably be around say the 150-250 of each maybe???

That would seem reasonable to me. The most of any card listed on COMC right now is 4 from this year's set.
And they are printed on; I know 2015 had three different "gum stain" patterns.

Al, the gum is applied by topps, mechanically...its really probably not gum but some sort of scratch-n-sniff powder that smells like topps gum and is shaped like a topps gum stick.

That is so disappointing ;)

And that is why I think Heritage has jumped the gimmick shark.

Agreed. What's next? Intentionally creased, off-center cards with factory manufactured corner wear?

I saw someone pull a hockey card that was torn in half from a pack. Not wax either, on of those early 90's mylar packs that were pretty hard to mess with. The shop owner gave him another pack right away. I'd have bought it as an oddity for my misprints collection if there'd been any way to prove it was like that in the pack. There wasn't , and it went where all torn in half commons eventually end up.

Steve B

You should have bought it Steve, I would have believed you.