There are six versions actually, not 4. To quote myself from my collection thread post:
English WotC #1 LPPCollecting promos:
Next we have the English #1 WotC promo Pikachu with LPPCollecting stamps. LPPCollecting is the largest distributor of Pokémon TCG cards in Italy, who also organizes the Pokémon TCG tournaments and Pokémon Days in Italy. There are six different stamped versions in total:
- “LPPCollecting - Welcome to the first run”
- “LPPCollecting - Per 2 o piu’ giocatori” (the English translation is “For 2 or more players”)
- “LPPCollecting - Per 2 o piu’ giogatori”
- Upside down “LPPCollecting - Per 2 o piu’ giogatori”
- Upside down “LPPCollecting - Per 2 o piu’ giocatori”
- “LPPCollecting.it - 20th Anniversario”
According to LPPCollecting themselves, it started with the regular “giogatori” print for the Italian Pokémon Day on June 18th and 19th, 2011. When they noticed the word was misspelled, they corrected it to the regular “giocatori” print. Around this same time, the English stamped version was created as well.
Later in 2017 or 2018 the upside down “giogatori” stamped versions emerged. I’m not sure if they were printed back in 2011 already and only distributed now, or that they’ve printed them somewhere in 2017.
According to their website, upside down “giocatori” stamped versions were made as well, although I have yet to see any. I assume these were made for LPPCollecting Staff members, but I’m not entirely sure. On their website, they also have printing numbers for each of the four Italian stamped versions: 1191 “giogatori”; 243 “giocatori”; 57 upside down “giogatori”; and 6 upside down “giocatori”. I’m not sure how accurate these printing numbers are. The English stamped version also isn’t mentioned.
As for the “20th Anniversario” stamped version (which I now have, but I still have to update my post): they were given with orders of at least 50 euros on the lppcollecting.it webshop from December 2nd, 2021 onward, to celebrate the 20th anniversary of LPPCollecting, according to their Facebook post.
As for the 7 W stamped promos, I’m 99% sure they’re officially released by WotC. The W is also part of the WotC logo, and they were just like the Best of Game cards probably just a kind of promo card. I personally don’t see the W stamped as anything different than for example the Prerelease stamps.
Greetz,
Quuador