Hi guys, I know some of y’all have seen it in the CGC thread but I wanted to make my own thread for it because I really am proud of this one. It’s as unique of an error as it gets, and today I received an official grade from CGC which reinforces its authenticity.
As far as anyone can tell, the card has a couple of key errors:
An initial obstruction causing a partial opaque white ink layer. (If zoomed in really close, you can see individual fibers of what looks like ripped paper/card stock near Entei’s head.
Either that obstruction or another one blocked the ink roller when it was applying the rest of the colors after the first layer!
What’re the chances, right? Either way, I was super excited to pick it up because after watching @pkmnflyingmaster 's video about how cards are printed… it seems insane to get to actually see the initial opaque white ink because so many things would have to go wrong for something like this to come to light.
Enjoy!!
Additional gallery of images from before I sent it off to get graded: imgur.com/a/MJwS67j
I’d love to see someone try to replicate this error. Have you ever tried to acetone a card? it’s pretty messy. Even getting a clean straight line like that would be really hard, let alone trying to selectively strip particular ink layers. IMO this is a good call by cgc. I’d be interested to see how they treat “albino”/sunfaded cards or cards with errors that are achievable with acetone
This error is incredibly clean looking. I’d be slightly more skeptical if the white print wasn’t there.
Plus from what I’ve been hearing CGC has advanced technology to help determine authenticity of cards and errors.
@pfm, If I had to guess, anything that can’t be backed up with their equipment or has no credibility and can be easily replicated with chemicals… I can only assume they’d stay far away from it. They’ll never put anything in a holder they aren’t 100% certain about. Albino or sun damaged cards would likely be graded harshly due to damage… or body bagged.
I’ve submitted a lot of collectibles to Certified Collectibles Group over the past 10 years and it seems like a reoccurring pattern with the company as a whole.
Someone on Facebook mentioned she would try to replicate this error as good as possible. We all know it’s a legit error, but it’s interesting what she might accomplish. This is what she mentioned:
She’s pretty well-known on the misprint FB group. She also tried to replicate some albino-bordered cards before by taping and bleaching and/or sun-discoloring:
Oh, and congrats on having it graded @cinnaminhbun !
Not to derail a thread about a cool card but is there any info on what errors/misprints are generally accepted in the misprint collectors community as almost always being man-made? For example, the square cut base set cards that look like they were cut out by a kindergartener are extremely obviously cut by some dude from a sheet, but are there others that are known to be suspect? Albino cards are another obvious example.
nope I have never, and I have never helt a acetone treated card either, so I am definitely not experienced in doing those things. But this card seemed like it may have been treated.
I would like to see what the facebook acetone person can do to replicate the card. But if CGC has graded this and they check for chemicals on the card it must be correct.
It would still be interesting of what that person can make of it.
I got it from someone on eBay! Lucky find super late at night. It was going to go to auction but I prevented that…
@pokemonprime I thought the same thing! Even the card next to this one on the sheet would look really whacky. But who knows where it is or if it even still exists.
Just kidding I hope it’s obvious. Not an error collector myself but I do set aside errors I pull as I know theres a market for it. Errors and signatures are two things I know the market values but I dont generally touch even for resale purposes as I have no idea how to know what’s real and what’s not nor what’s desired and whats not.
