2015 Topps Heritage High #s Wood Grain Front/Glossy Back

LWMM · Oct 14, 2015

Anyone have any of these? Brentandbecca had some of them up for sale, including a Gomes for a $30 BIN which I hit after sitting on for a day. Doing so may turn out to be one of the best card purchases I've made: this thing is practically impossible to distinguish from a regular base card, even side by side. The difference is only made clear by feel, as the front feels more granular, and the back smoother, than a base card. Unless there's another way to tell these apart that eludes me, these things don't stand a hope in hell of ever coming back from the commons boxes they will inevitably be put in.

Steve K. · Oct 14, 2015

I pulled one in my case (Slade Heathcott). I noticed it pretty quickly, but I scrutinize the cards in the middle of each pack pretty closely, and I was on the lookout for these (and gum damage cards) as I was busting my boxes. Basically the front and back are reversed -- the front image (photo) is printed on the rougher side of the cardboard that normally has the stats, and the back image (stats) is printed on the smoother side that normally has the photo. On it's own it wouldn't be very noticeable, but in the middle of a pack of cards printed normally, the light hits the card's surface differently.

I think "wood grain front/glossy back" is a bit of a misnomer for these cards, but that seems to have been adopted by everyone referring to them, so those are the terms I'll use when I list this on eBay.

LWMM · Oct 14, 2015

Steve K. said:
I pulled one in my case (Slade Heathcott). I noticed it pretty quickly, but I scrutinize the cards in the middle of each pack pretty closely, and I was on the lookout for these (and gum damage cards) as I was busting my boxes. Basically the front and back are reversed -- the front image (photo) is printed on the rougher side of the cardboard that normally has the stats, and the back image (stats) is printed on the smoother side that normally has the photo. On it's own it wouldn't be very noticeable, but in the middle of a pack of cards printed normally, the light hits the card's surface differently.

I think "wood grain front/glossy back" is a bit of a misnomer for these cards, but that seems to have been adopted by everyone referring to them, so those are the terms I'll use when I list this on eBay.

Thanks for the info Steve, that's pretty interesting. Did Topps mention these beforehand, or how did you know to be on the lookout?

Also, you only got one of those in your case. How many gum backs and B&Ws did you get?

r2d2 · Oct 14, 2015

From The Cardboard Connection:

PARALLEL CARDS: Gum Damage (1:43), Blue Backs (1:375), Black & White, Glossy Back
*It is believed that the Blue Back and Glossy Back parallels all have similar rarity and a print run of ten or less. The B&W parallels appear to the be the rarest. However, this has not been confirmed by Topps.

spikes · Oct 14, 2015

LWMM said:
Unless there's another way to tell these apart that eludes me, these things don't stand a hope in hell of ever coming back from the commons boxes they will inevitably be put in.

What about the code # on the back? Is it different from the base card?

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LWMM · Oct 14, 2015

r2d2 said:
From The Cardboard Connection:

PARALLEL CARDS: Gum Damage (1:43), Blue Backs (1:375), Black & White, Glossy Back
*It is believed that the Blue Back and Glossy Back parallels all have similar rarity and a print run of ten or less. The B&W parallels appear to the be the rarest. However, this has not been confirmed by Topps.

Glad to have this one then:

A blue back also got listed with a $50 BIN, which was hit before I saw it.

DeliciousBacon · Oct 14, 2015

I pulled one of these (Collin Cowgill) before I even knew what they were. They really stick out in a pack, at least I thought so, so I don't think there's much danger in these getting mixed up with the regular base cards. No Gum Backs, but I hit one of these, a Mini, a Red auto and a Gold GU out of a box and a half.

Doerrcollector · Oct 14, 2015

LWMM said:
Glad to have this one then:

A blue back also got listed with a $50 BIN, which was hit before I saw it.

Brent and Becca are claiming the black and whites are #/5.

Thanks,
Jeff

Doerrcollector · Apr 19, 2016

Just wanted to bump this to see if anymore info has come about in the last few months. Seems Beckett has gone with listing these as Glossy and Blue Back parallels with no stated print runs yet.

I've grabbed the Blue back of my player but still looking for the Glossy.

Thanks,
Jeff

tribefan26 · Apr 19, 2016

I've opened close to a case of high numbers and pulled neither a glossy back or black and white. Unless the seller is outrageously high I'd hop on one if i saw it.

rexvos · Apr 19, 2016

I pulled a black and white from a blaster. Too bad it was Sam Fuld.

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