Rare 1989 Fleer Bill Ripken graded cards

[bnorth]

Any offers bump.

[bnorth]

offers/trades? I mainly collect error cards, anything Wade Boggs, 1959 Fleer Ted Williams, and Eddie Mathews.

[jp1216]

Great cards Ben! That one on the right is a rare one. Good Luck with your sale.

[bnorth]

Any takers at $85 each or $150 for the pair delivered?

[scottglevy]

Would you kindly provide a little background on this? What’s the significance of a saw cut?

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by scottglevy

Would you kindly provide a little background on this? What’s the significance of a saw cut?

Fleer used it to mark the Ripken cards to pull out and replace with the black box version. They printed entire 132 sheets of just the Bill Ripken Black Box cards to replace the pulled cards. The Ripken card is on the bottom of the sheet so a maintenance guy run a saw up the stacks of sheets to mark them.

These 2 cards came from Donovan Ryan who was a big name in Ripken errors back in the day. Him along with a fellow Net54 member worked with GAI/Global Authority on grading them properly.

[Dashcol]

Originally Posted by bnorth

Fleer used it to mark the Ripken cards to pull out and replace with the black box version. They printed entire 132 sheets of just the Bill Ripken Black Box cards to replace the pulled cards. The Ripken card is on the bottom of the sheet so a maintenance guy run a saw up the stacks of sheets to mark them.

These 2 cards came from Donovan Ryan who was a big name in Ripken errors back in the day. Him along with a fellow Net54 member worked with GAI/Global Authority on grading them properly.

How can you tell that this is actually one of the saw cuts and not just someone taking a saw to the cards on their own?

I am not saying they are fakes, just curious as to how it can actually be determined.