1979 Topps Baseball Iron-Ons Test Issue?

[postwarcards]

I ran across this piece described as a "1979 Topps Baseball Iron-Ons Test Issue Keith Hernandez Promotional Piece."

It was in Mastro's October 2007 Classic Collector Auction.

Does anyone know anything about it? I can't find any reference to a similar set.

[ALR-bishop]

I have never come across one.

But welcome to the forum

[toppcat]

Topps would mock these up for internal use, creating Presentation Boards for one kind of pitch or another. Each piece was handmade by the New Product and /or Art Departments. I've not run across this one before but it's pretty awesome.

[tjisonline]

Originally Posted by toppcat

Topps would mock these up for internal use, creating Presentation Boards for one kind of pitch or another. Each piece was handmade by the New Product and /or Art Departments. I've not run across this one before but it's pretty awesome.

John (the OP) & David in the same post = cardboard goodness.

This 1979 design doe remind me of the 1968 Topps 3-D test issue (which itself looks like the basis for the 1969 base set).

David, is this Hernandez similar to the 1972 Topps Clemente base card mock-up as it was likely a 1/1 just for presentation purposes? I wonder if another player was designed / printed like this. Guess the only difference is 1972 was a design candidate for the base sets while this 79 was a presentation test?

[toppcat]

That Clemente was another mockup but I wish they had used that design at some point, it's really superb.

I've blogged on these over the years, a fascinating area with Topps:

https://www.thetoppsarchives.com/search?q=mock