Hand-drawn sketch cards, especially ones containing a multi-colored swatch, are some of my favorite modern day cards. In addition to Gypsy Queen this year, sports artist Monty Sheldon contributed his talent to 2016 Topps Major League Soccer too. There are (10) sketch patch cards inserted within ’16 Topps MLS, and Monty Sheldon drew all of them. Each card is numbered “1 of 1” and is incredibly difficult to pull. I think they look absolutely stunning. I like how the patch seems to be shinning a beam of light on the player. Even though this product was released in April, I’ve only seen two of these cards arrive on the secondary market – Obafemi Martins and Federico Higuain.
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Well I only posted the Oba so people could at least see what it looks like. It’s staying very comfortably in my Sounders collection.
[…] in the last two iterations of this brand. Monty Sheldon’s contributions to the 2015 and 2016 sets were great. I’d like to see those […]