Found a seller for a First Edition Pryce’s Lapras in Japan that also happens to be PSA 10. He sent me this photo and the PSA label doesn’t show it’s FirstEdition despite the stamp. I recalled smpratte’s video of scammers that crack open PSA cases to place fraudulent cards. How should i proceed further and do you think it’s authentic?imgur.com/URo1nDx
There are 2 versions of this card, the set version you have in your photo that has a 1st edition stamp and this version that is an unlimited promo, your versions was just mislabeled
The Japanese VS set was the first set in Japan to feature a first edition stamp, but an unlimited print run was never released. So labeling Japanese VS cards as “1st edition” is a bit pointless. The promotional Lapras posted above being the only exception, I think.
to my knowledge, no one in pokemon has ever successfully “replaced” the card in the PSA case. It’s extremely obvious if a case was cracked and if someone were to cleanly separate the case, you need a big, specially designed sonic sealer to close it again
if it were possible, people would be swapping 1st ed charizards and not common Japanese set cards
PSA makes mistakes on the labels quite often. I’ve got a 1st ed zapdos labelled as shadowless, a neo genesis kingdra labelled as the nonholo neo revelation card, a natta wake pikachu labelled as the regular birthday pikachu etc etc…
