Any thoughts on how this is possible ? I always figured these were 1/1s ?
Tuesday, March 11, 2014
A Printing Plate Mystery !!
Oke everyone, I need your insights !! I recently picked-up a cool Glavine printing plate. Being a Glavine collector I assumed that whatever Printing plate I come across I still need for my collection. So when the package arrived I was excited and loaded my spreadsheet. Interestingly enough, my speadsheet indicated I already owned it. Of course I checked right away and yes, I already owned a copy, leaving me with 2 Cyan Printing Plates like the one below.
Any thoughts on how this is possible ? I always figured these were 1/1s ?
Any thoughts on how this is possible ? I always figured these were 1/1s ?
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Just throwing out a few thoughts/ideas. For that set since there were so many cards that looked alike maybe they needed more than one plate to print all of them. A couple of different print runs? Do the backs for those tell which card it was for? With the streaks on that one maybe it became flawed during the print run and they needed to make another?
ReplyDeleteI know in some sets they have printing plates for all the inserts as well. Maybe one is an insert?
ReplyDeletenope, not really an insert, I think CaptKirk's reply makes sense, it's likely that one broke down and they had to make another one....big set given all the parallels
DeleteJust curious... are they identical in every way (with exception to printing flaws)? If so... that's totally weird.
ReplyDeleteYes, totally identical, same sticker on the back as well, both the cyan version
DeleteI've long suspected that these one-of-ones....aren't.
ReplyDeleteI'd like to see your two plates side by side, for comparison.
ReplyDeleteI was looking at some of the other plates online, especially the black ones. All of the text at the bottom of the card is foiled, which is the only part of the card that really distinguished one of the variations from the others. I wonder if multiple plates were made for some players with high numbers of variations to speed up the process.
I also noticed that Glavine's card has a photo variation. Around win #240, the picture changes from Braves to Mets. Obviously, multiple plates were used to print these cards. The real question is how many, and how many per variation?