Zardys 1999 Shadowless BGS Collection

Just documenting my near complete set. Most of these I have graded myself and are very clean copies.

I am still missing Ninetales, Clefairy and Machamp if anyone has for sale!

Blastoise sadly has a hair inside the slab…it’s pristine! At some point ill reslab.

This Poli was a PSA 9 new cert…then BGS quad 9 (BGS USA) then BGS 8.5 (BGS EU). It’s too nice for an 8.5, ill resub it at some point.

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Awesome collection! We seldom see Beckett sets being made on e4 so it’s super cool to see this

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Thanks Anthony - indeed I am one of the few, pioneers(?). lol

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These look amazing, best of luck completing the set! Kudos on grading most of these yourself :smiley:

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Beautiful cards! Always love to see Shadowless :pikasunglasses:

Good luck finding the last few! The finished set would look great in a frame/display! :pikalove:

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Thank you!

Sadly (or thankfully) shadowless is underappreciated I think. It’s special to me - I really enjoy the lore behind it.

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Just beautiful! Really lovely collection and also wonderful to see it in these slabs and with such great grades. To be able to grade them all yourself is also a really amazing achievement. Good luck on finding the missing pieces and hopefully you can complete the set soon. Thanks for sharing.

Cheers!

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For some reason finding shadowless cards in the wild gets me more excited than 1st ed. That’s awesome you were able to grade most of them yourself. If only I could find copies that clean :face_in_clouds: Are you planning on sourcing the others yourself? I imagine at this point it must be difficult.

Beautiful collection and thanks for sharing. I’m jelly.

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Lovely collection and so much appreciation for these cards, so great to see them all together!

That sinking feeling when you’ve been forgotten though..

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I know! Haha I totally forgot the poly. I do have one, will have to scan him on :laughing:

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It’s absolutely dry at the moment! I used to be buying a card every month or so but literally not found anything online that fits my criteria.

Slowly but surely I’ll grab them :slight_smile:

And yeah, shadowless does hit different than 1st edition. I don’t know why but I find the lore quite romantic :laughing:

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Some more (non-shadowless) cards in my collection - adding them here as may make it into a collection thread.

I try to grade most myself, but some are also cards I felt were particularly high condition.

T17 is oc but very clean surface and back.

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Forgot to upload this guy - thanks @magikarpflail for the poke!

New cert PSA 9 → Quad BGS 9 (BGS USA) → BGS 8.5 (from BGS EU)

It’s too clean for an 8.5 - BGS EU are lame. Zero surface issues, no idea how they got 8.5 surface.

I thought it would 9++ with an outside chance of a 9.5 basic (9 corners).

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Definitely seems like a harsh grade.

I have to say, I really like how the shadowless set looks in the BGS slabs, just seems to suit them quite well :+1:

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