Desert Shield

[fyerstrtr]

Hello everyone!

I have been on EBay, Amazon, and surfing the net for years looking for anyone who has info on the uniform issue Topps baseball cards with Gold shield we received upon arrival in theatre. I have two I fished out of the trash can, and I have my pack that has never been opened. It would be interesting to find out if anyone claimed the million dollar prize for finding the completely gold card. I have my cards in a fire proof safe deposit box, and my question is does anyone have an idea how much the unopened pack is worth. All the people in my Company opened, threw away, or traded off their cards. The only reason mine weren't opened is because I completely forgot I had them!!!!!

Thanks!

[Zach Wheat]

Fyre,

Thanks for your service. Unopened Packs are selling for around $150 currently on BBCE. The issue is that regular Topps issue cards have the same exact wrapping as the DS cards. Buyers often discount the price of their packs depending upon the surety that the cards are legitimately DS cards.

For instance BBCE will guarantee their packs are legit and have a great track record. Joe XYZ with 0 feedback will have trouble getting the same price.

I can't answer your other questions but I am sure others will chime in.

Z Wheat

[scmavl]

I have a BBCE sealed pack I'll let go for $140 if anyone wants it. (sorry for the spam!)

[brob28]

Zach, do you have any photos of the uncut sheets? I'd love to see them.

[Zach Wheat]

Originally Posted by brob28

Zach, do you have any photos of the uncut sheets? I'd love to see them.

Bill,

I am in the midst of traveling and my trip just got extended. The sheets are rather large and they are difficult to "scan"; following is a cropped pic of Sheet F. The sheets are 28 1/2 X 43 inches with 132 cards equally printed in 6 sheets. Sheet F is the sheet which contains the 5 cards previously listed with an *E/*F sheet code as well as the only card without a sheet code designation (Cal Ripken #5), the uncorrected checklists and the Chipper Jones card.

Sheet F also has the highest serial number on the right border. I initially suspected the code was the print date & batch # for quality control purposes, but am not sure. If it is a date & batch code, then the sheets had short print run of a couple of days.

I will post more when I return.

Z Wheat

[brob28]

That is an awesome site Zack! BTW - your print run theory makes sense to me, with only 6,000 (I believe) sets printed I would guess it would not take long to print these.

[Zach Wheat]

Originally Posted by fyerstrtr

Hello everyone!

I have been on EBay, Amazon, and surfing the net for years looking for anyone who has info on the uniform issue Topps baseball cards with Gold shield we received upon arrival in theatre. I have two I fished out of the trash can, and I have my pack that has never been opened. It would be interesting to find out if anyone claimed the million dollar prize for finding the completely gold card. I have my cards in a fire proof safe deposit box, and my question is does anyone have an idea how much the unopened pack is worth. All the people in my Company opened, threw away, or traded off their cards. The only reason mine weren't opened is because I completely forgot I had them!!!!!

Thanks!

Fyre,

Here is a link to redemptions to the 1991 Topps set:

http://www.baseballcardpedia.com/index.php/1991_Topps

I do not know if it comprehensive or not. The footnote on the bottom indicates the site was last updated in May 2013. As we now know, the list of variations does not apply to the DS set.

Z Wheat

[Zach Wheat]

I am back so wanted to post pics of other sheets I took when viewing the sheets. The code on the right edge, which you can't really make out at this resolution might be a serial number or a code for a date. Most of the sheets have a code that is only a couple of digits separating - with the same code repeated.

Here is sheet A

Z Wheat

[bnorth]

Just got done going through around 4000 Desert Shield cards and found this variation/printing error. The left picture has the DS logo lower than any other Parrish I found. All the other cards I looked at the logo never moved that much on the same card. Is this common or does one have a fake logo? I know very little about these cards. Thanks for any input.

[savedfrommyspokes]

Ben the one on the left is the fake....I can't see "the coconuts" on the left card as I can on the card on the right and the text in the box is not crisp on the left hand card as it is on the right. In addition, the logo on the left is too bright...the legit logos have less luster, as the card on the right does. Some years ago, I bought multiple lots of these DS cards on ebay, and about half of them have these fake real logos. Fortunately I was not in them for much.

Here is a guide I found on the PSA site concerning these DS cards:

http://www.psacard.com/Articles/Arti...-pre-war-cards

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by savedfrommyspokes

Ben the one on the left is the fake....I can't see "the coconuts" on the left card as I can on the card on the right and the text in the box is not crisp on the left hand card as it is on the right. In addition, the logo on the left is too bright...the legit logos have less luster, as the card on the right does. Some years ago, I bought multiple lots of these DS cards on ebay, and about half of them have these fake real logos. Fortunately I was not in them for much.

Here is a guide I found on the PSA site concerning these DS cards:

http://www.psacard.com/Articles/Arti...-pre-war-cards

Thank you Larry, Looks like all 3 Desert Shield print errors I recently bought are fakes. Luckily I did not pay much for them.