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The range of plates sold are always out of print or defunct manufacturers, or specifically from sets that are not popular. Things like Pacific hockey and football, Pro Line, Pro Set 1994 football, Conlon baseball (just the Babe Ruth set) and the like. Sometimes non-sports or other sports I am not familiar with. The plates themselves are always normal, not reverse image. They have the rounded corners like you would see in plates released in retail Topps or Upper Deck products. They do not have anything on the back. And strangely, they are nearly all the "black" plate and not in the 4 colors that Topps, UD or Panini plates are released as. So for myself, I am never quite certain how legit these are, other than I have not seen any duplicates appear. I do know that the Pacific plates for hockey only appeared after the Pacific bankruptcy auction, at the same time the back-stock of non-serial numbered Pacific cards came to Ebay. While those un-numbered cards disappeared quite fast, these random plates have been sold steadily for over 10 years now. But it became interesting that in recent years it hasn't just been Pacific plates. The one or two sellers I know that sold these plates always had Pacific ones up until just recently, say 4 years ago when random football ones started being sold instead, and then 1-2 years ago the Conlon Babe Ruth plates appeared. Nothing ever going for a large amount of money, but for myself it is the only reason I have the dozen or so I do have. They are cheap enough that at $1-5 if they aren't real it isn't a big loss. I think my average price paid for the ones I have is $3. |
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At some price point it seems almost everything is collectible. I confess I have bought a cut out before!! (as for the printing plates, I am not sure)
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I've gone opposite, never done a cut-out but have grabbed quite a few plates as I think they have a bit of historical significance as an item that created the card. I will not pay more than 20 bucks under usual circumstances and they are super affordable.
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Here is the information I posted a couple years ago on another forum. The "real names" are retained only for the reason that at the time, an Ebay seller had appeared on ebay selling the same types of these plates as a previous one, and it had turned out these people had different names but were in the same town. This was not to say that there were any complaints about the plates themselves or of the sellers. It was just an interesting discovery.
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EDIT: I put "real names" in quotes because these were the names shown on the paypal/ebay emails. Since there is no identity verification on Paypal, and both sellers were from the same town, it cannot be confirmed if these are truly their real names. They may well be correct, but history has shown that ebay sellers often do sometimes use fake names or aliases. Last edited by Tripredacus; 04-14-2017 at 04:17 PM. |
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Uh...oh. I've got a printing plate AND have purchased cutouts. I'm hopeless... |
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A couple plates, not lithography, but one of the forms of typography. Thick metal around 1/16 -1/8 mounted to a wood block. If I remember it right they're from McCarthy postcards.
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Those are very cool! Never seen this type of item for cards before. Thanks for sharing. |
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I have a printing plate card of Don West from when he was a TNA Wrestling announcer.
You might remember Don West from his time as the over-the-top pitchman on Shop At Home's sports card shows, and I found it ironic that a guy who used to sell collectibles was now, himself, collectible.
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Revival
Reviving this thread for some recent pickups.
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Pacific and conlons and so little collected that it makes perfect sense that any plates would be a close out purchase.
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