All Merlin (Topps) Tottenham Hotspur Stickers 1989-90 to 1998-99

 

Merlin Publishing was founded in 1989 by four ex-Panini staff in reaction to the acquisition of Panini by the Maxwell Corporation.

 

The company quickly grew to be a leading player in sticker production of all genres resulting in Merlin Publishing itself being taken over by Topps Inc. in 1995 (Topps was seeking a more global reach in the sticker world, especially in Europe).

 

The new parent company (now named ‘Topps Europe’) however retained the ‘Merlin’ brand as the name was well known & regarded by consumers.

 

The first football sticker set of Tottenham Hotspur interest issued by Merlin Publishing was in 1989-1990 while it was an independent company. After this there was a four year gap until 1994 when Merlin started producing the official Premier League Football Sticker Collection (which no doubt was an influence in Topps acquiring Merlin the following year).

 

Since then Topps (under the Merlin name) has produced the official Premier League collection every year until the present date.

 

For that reason, there is now a huge number of stickers of each Premier League club and I have therefore had to split this collection into a number of pages.

 

Here then (nicely just squeezing into the maximum number of photos allowed on one page of this site) are the Merlin/Topps Tottenham Hotspur stickers issued for the first decade of production - between 1989-90 & 1998-99...