Im looking for characteristics of the sheets along with text identifiers to potentially trace print runs back to where they may have been printed. Anyone have these products and would be willing to help?
The picture quality is likely not good enough, but here is an overview of a lot of uncut sheets:
@TCAGaming also has a lot of uncut sheets who might be able to answer some questions, if his uncut sheets are within reach, although I’m not sure how many of those uncut sheet he owns are from the WotC sets.
Greetz,
Quuador
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@TCAGaming let me know if yould be interested in helping.
Ive been using that uncut sheet site for alot of references but its difficult when you cant see the fine details to identify what the sheet actually is.
Cataloging $1k sheets of paper spread all over the world is tough work. Wish i could get in touch with the guy who started that site
How good of quality do you need?
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Different locations would potentially depend on the sheets since defining characteristics are kinda all over the place. Primarily after base fossil sheets but ive seen the third print fossil and jungle characteristics on cards as far out as the gym sets. Could get relevant information off them too potentially.
Neo too maybe
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I hope posts like these aren’t attempts to influence authenticators into using them as reference-potentially legitimizing a fake-or to extract information for more questionable purposes.
Dont know what youre saying but im not counterfeiting. Id love to know why belgium produced 9+ print runs of marked pokemon cards that i personally would not have allowed for tournament use back then had i known about it.
I have a whole bunch of pokemon cards and i believed there was a way to identify them. If this kind of stuff interests you, ill send you a discord invite.
Weve found some pretty amazing things so far
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Can you explain this more? I’m confused, but curious. What is the story behind this hunt? What does it mean that the cards are “marked”? How would reprints make it so that its not tournament legal? I have to know what is happening here. It sounds interesting. Why belgium specifically too? Did they do something that other printing places didn’t do?
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I found this misprint “e” missing shading on the inside. This error was mass produced on specific cardstock i believe is common to carta mundi. Ive found hundreds of cards with the error and all have a package that was made in belgium. The only one that doesnt is a single base set potion im thinking was a jungle theme deck. One of the most mysterious cards i own at the moment lol.
The purpose of the hunt started as trying to identify the 4th print base set printings. Eventually found third print jungle, belgium, and first edition machamp. Theres more but right now im trying to fond uncut sheets so i can figure out where print runs ive identified were produced.
You can see the mark on the back of the card if you know its there so it could easily be a marked card and not legal
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