G'day everyone, Adrian here from Sydney Australia with the Destroy All Robots back story.
I contacted the artist Andrew Maunsell who lives in the northern part of Sydney and initially asked if he was the same Andrew Maunsell that produced the Destroy All Robots trading card set in the 90's...
He said yes and was very happy to have a chat and meet up to discuss his art and the process of producing the DAR set, along with a few other subjects. We deduced that indeed the cards were produced in 1995 and Andrew was at the printers on the day they were being cut and he kept EVERYTHING. Off-cuts, mis-cuts cards, uncut boxes, uncut sheets of regular cards, all regular cards. Just incredible that he saved everything.
On my first visit I was able to obtain a few single promos of the Thick card stock and the Thin card stock. Interestingly, the Thin card stock has a few variants including UV Coated, Matte and Gloss finishes.
I received a message from Andrew a couple of days after my visit, saying he lifted the tray in the box of cards/promos he had and found a haul of uncut promo cards, including the postcards and a sheet including the postcards and promo cards...absolutely incredible!!!
As you can see from the pics, the top is the thick card stock, uncut promo sheet which I got Andrew to sign on the back. (it was one of only three sheet he had left)
The next pics are the thin stock uncut sheets of singles and postcards. The pics don't do this item, nearly enough justice as they are incredible in person.
The last pics are the uncut promo postcards of which I also managed to get a couple of the cut/regular promo postcards.
Hope everyone enjoys these
