Terrabear, the difference and I hope I get help here is. You need card in hand to really see the difference.
PURPLE front edging is a Purple color
CHROME cards do not refract the light back and usually SNed numbered to year or 999
REFRACTOR The light shines back with a bent light and rainbow lighting. SNed to a to some where to 5XX usually the year. This year and last year, Topps added Refractor beneath the number.
you can look on COMC at them and hope they have a sample where card pic acts as thou it was in hand
Robert
“It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone. You count on it, rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops. Today, October 2, a Sunday of rain and broken branches and leaf-clogged drains and slick streets, it stopped and summer was gone.”
― A. Bartlett Giamatti
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