The marketing video they made for it is excellent. I always questioned the effect of marketing for such items beyond just making people aware of the listing, but it really got me excited about it. Impressed.
Good point! Makes me think stamps are actually directly printed on upon sheet creation, rather than āstampedā on after printing
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There are base cards with a faint outline of a 1st Ed stamp on the backside (presumably from the card stacked behind it in the booster pack) but no other ink residue. This, along with occasional smudged stamp cards and shades of gray stamps where the other colors and black ink on the card are all normal, leads me to think they are stamped on. I suppose a separate āstamp ink print layerā similar to the final black ink clarity layer or the yellow border layer could cause similar issues.
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IIRC the first edition stamps are added on after the regular āKā (black) print pass (this is the K in CMYK), but before the cards are finished to seal up the surface. This is all done before cutting because itās way more efficient for a printer to print onto one big uncut sheet than to individually print and seal cut cards.
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The reason square cut cards exist is because the sum of the parts is usually greater than the whole. Each individual square cut card could be sold for more than the sheet is worth. People donāt care about the history of an item when they take scissors to it, they care about lining their wallet.
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Two questions that brings up are 1) Will anyone that would cut up the sheet have necessary liquid capitol to purchase it. 2) What is the value of #1 Alakazam (2 cards), #2 Blastoise (2 cards), #3 Chansey (3 cards), #4 Charizard (2 cards), #5 Clefairy (2 cards), #6 Gyarados (10 cards), #7 Hitmonchan (10 cards), #8 Machamp (32 cards), #9 Magneton (2 cards), #10 Mewtwo (10 cards), #11 Nidoking (2 cards), #12 Ninetales (10 cards), #13 Poliwrath (2 cards), #14 Raichu (3 cards), #15 Venusaur (3 cards), and #16 Zapdos (3 cards) as square cuts.
āThese are pokeman. They have colors, so this is realā
āAgreedā?
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Heās actually an admin on one of the largest pokemon tcg āmisprintā pages on facebookā¦still a clown.
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Just off the top of my head I know a vintage Ferrari has sold for $70 million in recent years. Those are definitely ācollectiblesā. If you want to throw art in that definition too Iām sure there are plenty of things that have gotten 9 figures.
Very cool to see - wish they alternated the cards instead of many in a row. Personal preferenceā¦and yes I know uncut sheets werenāt meant to be kept as such, just saying.
Congrats to the winner, $171,600 seems like a steal for a piece like this
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I wasnāt really sure what to expect on thisā¦ have there been similar items sold previously?
How do you play TCG with this sheet:-), does that count as one card 
what next on this sheet, do you keep it like that or do you cut it in piecesā¦ At this price I will not touch it, maybe a piece that could be shown in a museum
Yes 170K for this unique, I think its a good price
Ha definitely one Jumbo card 