Not sure why I didn’t get any notifications, but this is a very interesting post.
I have not personally ever seen a Base set pack with the red tape. I have seen it for other packs, mainly modern ones.
I have never seen use of the sealed case tape being used on a pack ever. That part seems incredibly strange to me.
These packs look fairly convincing but I would love to know if the case tape was ever a real method utilized. I would love to see some high res scans.
I did some initial analysis and my big red flags with these are:
- Some colors look way off
- The top/bottom crimps look about 10% more dense than normal ( There are more crimp lines than normal )
- The vertical crimps are very square in appearance instead of rectangular
- Tape font and punctuation does not match other samples from a sealed case of Base set blisters ( you can buy stop tape online amazon )
Below are pictures of the packs in question followed by a graded PSA short crimp shadowless example.
