日本のマーケット部分 The Giant Japanese Market Thread

[stagecoach]

This is inconclusive.

Some say you can always tell a card that’s been peeled from an insert because the edges are supposed to have a telling sign of having been affixed to the mount. But I have never been able to tell the difference and I really, really tried.

Currently I am choosing to treat them as one card since I can’t tell the difference. I talked about it in this thread.

@stagecoach

4. Consolidating Release Concepts: This is another difficult one that is not set in stone. Lots of Japanese promos were released multiple times with no distinction between the releases. The same Toyota-affiliated Arcanine Promo was distributed through the Best Song CD Collection, as were some promos previously peeled from sheets. These cards are not printed with any variation between them, but their manufacturing process is slightly different due to their different release methods.

There is a very influential and informative thread on our forum from several years ago that asserts you can easily determine which cards were peeled from sheets versus which cards were distributed precut - particular in reference to the Best Song CD collection. I do not dispute the information in this thread, but I cannot replicate it.

My peeled promos do not look like the ones in the photo with the lipped edge and flattened gloss. My peeled promos just look like normal cards. When I started this adventure I was so committed to recognizing the releases as different cards that I would only buy them in their intact packaging so I could know with total certainty where each card came from. But when I inspected these cards under strong light and a magnifying glass, I could not see the pronounced difference I was expecting. I asked for some second opinions, and even had the cards examined with jewelers tools, and they were just as stumped as I was. I do not know what to make about this. I cannot draw a conclusion from it other than I am not able to differentiate between the cards personally. As a result, I have stopped recognizing them as different in my collection. This affects several cards released in the Best Song CD Collection (Super Energy Retrieval, Mew, Mewtwo, and Computer Error) but I have opted to treat them as one card for now.

But the quick answer you’re looking for is that some say you can tell the difference between cards peeled from mounts versus cards that were not, which would make them identifiably different releases and therefore arguably different cards.

However until I can tell the difference, or someone else can reliably tell the difference in a demonstrable way, I am just treating them as one card.

All those cards like Hungry Snorlax and the Trade Please starters are indistinguishable since none were ever distributed as mounts.