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Originally Posted by G1911

Always been my favorite period of Topps. I like art more than photos, so they are the period right up my alley design wise. Topps started to laze it in in many ways for the next several decades after 1956, once they bought out the competition and didn’t have to produce a better product to sell. I like many of those later Topps sets, but they are absolutely a lower effort product than when Topps was fighting in a free market. Lazy photography that seems to have been ‘whatever picture is on top of the stack of options goes on the card’ to cutting the card size, all was not done to make a better quality product as 52-56 were doing.

The 53’s are my favorite, as actual paintings.

I think Topps laziest era might have been 55 to 56, when they just used a lot of the same photos over and over from 1954. As for the cards themselves, they're beautiful, and I can look at them all day long!