Australian 1st edition base set with shadow

General Question
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So I was listening to episode of PokeRadar’s podcast interviewing @TCAGaming and they were discussing how Rusty has an uncut sheet of Australian 1st edition base set and there are rumors of a few wotc employees having actual full sets of individual cards. Wanted to ask what the community here knows about an Australian 1st edition set with a shadow in English.

Couldn’t tag PokeRadar for some reason

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I purchased this which contains never before seen samples of 1st Edition Shadowed copyright 1999 Base set. Rusty’s would have to be copyright 1999-2000. I was told there there are several versions that the test printers would have been exploring. It is unclear if these were ever physically printed.

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I also saw Rusty’s uncut sheet video, and one of the Base 1st with-shadow sheets is 1999 copyright, from what I can see in the video:

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It’d be amazing to see! But yeah as mentioned it’s likely just the test sheets that have the 1st edition shadowed cards.

The sheet I have is very similar to Rusty’s, though I’m unsure if his have Pokemon backs or just white backs like most.

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My understanding its just australian test sheets, believe Leycol had something similar. Very doubtful(99.999% theres not) theres full sets of 102 australian 1st edition test prints floating but never know

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Cgc’s mouth is watering.