Year:1998Brand:TopsunFormat:Sticker / SealTotal:196 stickersGrey:88Blue:88Prism:20Distribution:Booster packs with gumSize:50 x 50 mm
About this set
Top Seika’s 1998 Toppu Seal Gum 3 is a 196-piece release: 176 non-holo seals plus 20 prism holos. The 176 split evenly into 88 grey-border seals carried over from the first print run and 88 blue-border seals added for this printing. 24 Pokémon were printed in both borders, so the two groups cover 152 different Pokémon between them. Mew and Togepi sit at set positions #151 and #153 on the blue side. Those are checklist positions, not Pokédex numbers.
The border on the front goes with the back: a grey-border seal carries the back whose copyright line sets its interpuncts wide, and a blue-border seal carries the tight-set one. Both backs on this set are Toppu-branded. A third back exists, printed with the older Topsun wordmark, and it belongs to the 1997 predecessor product rather than to anything on this page.
Checklist correction · September 2026
This checklist previously listed 323 rows, built by filling both borders with a complete Kanto run. That was wrong. It now lists the 196 that a photographed collector checklist of the set enumerates item by item, so 127 rows were removed: 126 of them were the surplus half of a pair where only one border of that Pokémon was ever printed, and the last was Unown, which appears nowhere in the 196-piece enumeration and nowhere in the first print run. Unown is removed for lack of any record rather than on positive evidence that it does not exist; if a genuine Unown seal from this set turns up, it goes straight back. No surviving row, photo key or contributor credit was changed.
Two sources carry it. A published collector checklist of the 1998 set, and the matching one for its 1997 first print run, together fix the 88 / 88 / 20 split and name the grey roster, each backed by a photograph of every piece. One CGC-slabbed Fearow No.022 from an unrelated seller, photographed on both faces, shows a grey border over the wide-interpunct back and closes the front-to-back tie without relying on that checklist. The archive behind the checklist is named in the research record rather than here.
Grey Border Stickers (88)
88 first-print-carryover grey seals · printed numbers, not a contiguous run
#001BulbasaurGrey Border Sticker
#002IvysaurGrey Border Sticker
#003VenusaurGrey Border Sticker
#004CharmanderGrey Border Sticker
#005CharmeleonGrey Border Sticker
#006CharizardGrey Border Sticker
#007SquirtleGrey Border Sticker
#008WartortleGrey Border Sticker
#009BlastoiseGrey Border Sticker
#010CaterpieGrey Border Sticker
#011MetapodGrey Border Sticker
#012ButterfreeGrey Border Sticker
#013WeedleGrey Border Sticker
#014KakunaGrey Border Sticker
#015BeedrillGrey Border Sticker
#016PidgeyGrey Border Sticker
#017PidgeottoGrey Border Sticker
#018PidgeotGrey Border Sticker
#060PoliwagGrey Border Sticker
#061PoliwhirlGrey Border Sticker
#062PoliwrathGrey Border Sticker
#063AbraGrey Border Sticker
#064KadabraGrey Border Sticker
#065AlakazamGrey Border Sticker
#066MachopGrey Border Sticker
#067MachokeGrey Border Sticker
#068MachampGrey Border Sticker
#069BellsproutGrey Border Sticker
#070WeepinbellGrey Border Sticker
#071VictreebelGrey Border Sticker
#074GeodudeGrey Border Sticker
#075GravelerGrey Border Sticker
#076GolemGrey Border Sticker
#019RattataGrey Border Sticker
#020RaticateGrey Border Sticker
#021SpearowGrey Border Sticker
#022FearowGrey Border Sticker
#025PikachuGrey Border Sticker
#026RaichuGrey Border Sticker
#027SandshrewGrey Border Sticker
#028SandslashGrey Border Sticker
#035ClefairyGrey Border Sticker
#036ClefableGrey Border Sticker
#037VulpixGrey Border Sticker
#038NinetalesGrey Border Sticker
#039JigglypuffGrey Border Sticker
#040WigglytuffGrey Border Sticker
#041ZubatGrey Border Sticker
#042GolbatGrey Border Sticker
#046ParasGrey Border Sticker
#047ParasectGrey Border Sticker
#048VenonatGrey Border Sticker
#049VenomothGrey Border Sticker
#050DiglettGrey Border Sticker
#051DugtrioGrey Border Sticker
#052MeowthGrey Border Sticker
#053PersianGrey Border Sticker
#054PsyduckGrey Border Sticker
#055GolduckGrey Border Sticker
#056MankeyGrey Border Sticker
#057PrimeapeGrey Border Sticker
#058GrowlitheGrey Border Sticker
#059ArcanineGrey Border Sticker
#072TentacoolGrey Border Sticker
#073TentacruelGrey Border Sticker
#077PonytaGrey Border Sticker
#078RapidashGrey Border Sticker
#079SlowpokeGrey Border Sticker
#080SlowbroGrey Border Sticker
#081MagnemiteGrey Border Sticker
#082MagnetonGrey Border Sticker
#084DoduoGrey Border Sticker
#085DodrioGrey Border Sticker
#086SeelGrey Border Sticker
#087DewgongGrey Border Sticker
#116HorseaGrey Border Sticker
#117SeadraGrey Border Sticker
#118GoldeenGrey Border Sticker
#119SeakingGrey Border Sticker
#120StaryuGrey Border Sticker
#121StarmieGrey Border Sticker
#129MagikarpGrey Border Sticker
#130GyaradosGrey Border Sticker
#138OmanyteGrey Border Sticker
#139OmastarGrey Border Sticker
#083Farfetch’dGrey Border Sticker
#095OnixGrey Border Sticker
#107HitmonchanGrey Border Sticker
Blue Border Stickers (88)
88 seals added for the 1998 printing · includes Mew #151 and Togepi #153 as set positions