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Originally posted by Jessica:

I don't remember getting or having any of these either!!!! #

Welcome to my world.

Here's a Star Wars Galaxy 9-card uncut promo sheet (Topps, 1993). I noticed it while looking for something else. This is the one you got for free when you bought the book, "Art of Star Wars Galaxy," (Topps Comics Inc., 1993). You can still find the book with a sheet included if you look around.

I assume y'all watching the uncut/unsigned sheet of Harry Potter autographs on eBay?

https://www.ebay.com/itm/33639...tkp%3ABk9SR6jq2rz9Zg

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Originally posted by make-mine-marvel:
I assume y'all watching the uncut/unsigned sheet of Harry Potter autographs on eBay?

https://www.ebay.com/itm/33639...tkp%3ABk9SR6jq2rz9Zg

Yup, I'm already practicing my neatest Emma Watson signature and also cutting extremely straight lines with my sharpest scissors!

This is a great topic and love seeing all the uncut sheets, especially the promo sheets. Just a question if someone could clarify for me, "Pairing down" means.. I've seen it mentioned here a few times...

I have a very limited (6 in existence at last count) uncut sheet of Destroy All Robots from 1996, that I was given by the artist Andrew Maunsell, last year during an interview I did with him on the Destroy All Robots set. I have ZERO clue how to upload photos here so if someone would be willing to post for me, that would be great... I also have, as a few other collectors have recently, the uncut sheet of Promo cards, including the rare promo postcards. Looks incredible in person.

Thanks in advance

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Please, a little respect. For I am Costanza, lord of the idiots

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Originally posted by make-mine-marvel:
I assume y'all watching the uncut/unsigned sheet of Harry Potter autographs on eBay?

https://www.ebay.com/itm/33639...tkp%3ABk9SR6jq2rz9Zg

Sold for $2,300.

From an autograph card collector's POV, there is nothing I hate more than the unsigned certified card. Whether they are dumped as a whole sheet or as individual cards not fully completed or unreleased, it just undermines the meaning of a certified card. It makes possible the worst-case scenario, the authentic card with a counterfeit signature.

At least if the card was unreleased, there is a checklist record to consult, and people should be able to look it up. However, if the card was released, the existence of an unknown number of unsigned cards undermines the whole process and makes the original cards with the certified signatures suspect. I'm all for card collectors wanting novelties, but unsigned certified cards should either be marked up or destroyed. They should never be released into the wild because the result is more than predictable.

There is also no reason why a blank certified autograph card should be worth more than a few dollars to anybody. They are incomplete, some might even say damaged, yet they are still in demand. Once the card is deemed authentic, does anyone think that third party graders will catch every forgery? Or that every card will even be submitted? To me, it just taints the whole product, and I never understood why so many card manufacturers kept their blank inventory once they realized the signings were not going to happen. They know what's coming if/when they get out.

There is a scan of a one of the promo sheets elsewhere on Card Talk:

https://nonsportupdate.infopop...687016506#3687016506

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Originally posted by cardscout182:
This is a great topic and love seeing all the uncut sheets, especially the promo sheets. Just a question if someone could clarify for me, "Pairing down" means.. I've seen it mentioned here a few times...

I have a very limited (6 in existence at last count) uncut sheet of Destroy All Robots from 1996, that I was given by the artist Andrew Maunsell, last year during an interview I did with him on the Destroy All Robots set. I have ZERO clue how to upload photos here so if someone would be willing to post for me, that would be great... I also have, as a few other collectors have recently, the uncut sheet of Promo cards, including the rare promo postcards. Looks incredible in person.

Thanks in advance

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Please, a little respect. For I am Costanza, lord of the idiots

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There is a scan of a one of the promo sheets elsewhere on Card Talk:

https://nonsportupdate.infopop...687016506#3687016506

Yes Jess, thanks for the heads up, but my uncut promo sheet also features the two rare postcard size promos, as well as the regular 8 promos, which are numbered CCI, CCII, CCIII, P1, P2, P3, P4, P5.
Interestingly, there is a date on the printers edge being 2/17/95 7.38pm which clearly dates the set.

Again, anyone that could post the images I have, would be great...

Great thread- I love uncut sheets, it’s probably my biggest collecting interest. It surprisingly remains a very niche part of the hobby though* (in both nonsports and sports). Possibly due to the large space sheets take up. Possibly because people prefer to collect and deal in standard cards. But they are great for display and also make up some of the real rarities, since many weren’t even intended for distribution. A scarce uncut sheet surfacing from the 90s in Marvel (what I collect) is almost infinitely more interesting to me than a newly made 1/5 or 1/1 card. The sheets are a part of the history of the sets and their production, and in some cases they can contain useful information by revealing shortprints or informing error cards. The mere appearance of a sheet can be a treasure trove of information.

Not to clutter the thread, but to post a few
An uncut sheet of uncut sheets:

1992 Marvel Universe series 3 Impel promo sheet uncut sheet






This was the promo sheet that was put into a sealed packet and numbered to 30,000 from impel.

*: there are some signs of ramped up interest though. After the pandemic we have seen original 1977 Topps Star Wars sheets start to go for thousands, even up to $18k in some cases. Rare marvel 90s sheets seem to have trended upward, and some rare 90s basketball sheets especially with Jordan have gone for huge amounts into the tens of thousands. Generally though…uncut sheet collecting remains quite niche.

1992 Marvel Masterpieces blueback promo sheet (note it immediately reveals the relatively rarity ratios of these 5 promos. Hulk by far the most common one. It may come as a surprise that the Surfer is the rarest of the 5 (doubly as rare as Wolverine even). The 6th blue back promo in this set- the Cap America- is not on the sheet (he was on the Prototype sheet)- so the ratio of his rarity compared to these cannot be known. I suspect the Cap is the rarest though- rarer than this Surfer, based on marketplace numbers. The Cap supposedly came in Comic Scoreboard #36… a lower print run magazine.





This also reveals the relative rarity of the 1993 Marvel Masterpieces promos, with Daredevil by far the most common and Venom rarest (he was supposedly issued from the National convention).

This sheet of 1994 Fleer Amazing Spider-Man gold web inserts immediately shows the Walmart verision gold web (bottom right of each rectangle) are to the jumbo gold webs at a 1:5 ratio. (The print run of Walmart gold webs is 1/5th that of jumbo). This means in theory the Walmart ones should go for about 5x the jumbo ones in price, and I think we do see roughly that (understanding character also sways it).

This 1995 Marvel Masterpieces canvas sheet shows the 10 cards *not* present in the 12-block of singletons at bottom right…are shortprinted at a 4/5 ratio in the set. So this means Beast is a tadddd bit rarer than Iceman in this set, to take an example. Also a side note- one thing cool about uncut sheets is they always take on the tech of the cards themselves (in fact they ARE the cards in the most literal sense)- tech like chrome, foil, hologram, lenticular etc. So in this case..this entire 95MM sheet feels like one huge thing of canvas- the sheet has a bit of a fabric feel to it.



This is only the back of a sheet (D’oh!). But even the back of a sheet can reveal some interesting information. This is the 1995 Marvel Flair “Chromium insert set” by Fleer. There are 100 cards on the sheet, but there are 12 cards in the set. Since 12 does not divide 100 evenly…..there must be shortprints. Indeed, after some tedious counting, #1-4 in this set are overprinted at an 9/8 ratio (or differently stated, #5-12 in the set are shortprinted at an 8/9 ratio- super small to notice much in practice but the print run of the cards IS different). Amazing what just the back of a sheet can reveal!



No shortprints to be found in the below though.











(Fleer knocking out 3 things with one stone in the below sheet. Contains both chrome insert sets in 1995 Fleer Ultra Spider-Man- golden web and Masterpieces, plus has the Wolverine promo card from 1995 X-Men ultra chromium, a totally different set).

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A 1992 Masterpieces Battle Spectra sheet, no shortprints here. Plus a few production stage test sheets (in order: regular sheet, over-foil on black/cyan only sheet, black cyan only sheet, and an only-foil sheet with no print layer).

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This one is not my sheet but the story is interesting. A few months ago on eBay this sheet was auctioned- to my utter surprise was a sheet of a set that shouldnt even exist- a 1995 Fleer Ultra Spider-man Chromium insert sheet (just like mine above…but this one is clearly a “refractor” sheet- rainbow holofoil cards. That wasnt a thing, at least an announced thing, in 1995 Ultra Spiderman. Those inserts had no parallels, they looked just like my “base chrome” sheet above. But here is a refractor sheet.



It’s quite the mysterious sheet, and I put a stupid high bid in because it could be an important sheet that I wouldn’t see again…and lo and behold I was outbid and it went for over $6,000! Thats gotta be a milestone number in the marvel uncut sheet market. Was gutted by that but oh well. Even just knowing the sheet exists brings up some interesting questions. Were there refractor versions of these chrome inserts? I did some digging… All these 90s chrome cards were done by Signs and Glassworks, who had a patent on the chrome technology. So other chrome inserts like the Chromium inserts from 1995 Marvel Flair…Signs and Glassworks. 1995 Fleer Ultra X-men Sinister Observations… yep, Signs and Glassworks. So it was enough to make me go through my inventory and…..found this Juggernaut from 1995 Flair Chromium which has a rainbow foil.



With a search on eBay for 1995 Marvel Flair Chromium and sorted by highest price, to my surprise there are “refractor” versions listed for stupid amounts, many thousands (I do not think they are worth anything near that..similar to how people price error cards for thousands and never sell). I don’t really see refractors in 95FUSM but I do see them in the Flair Chromium set. What they are- I don’t know- whether they were pack inserted or not, I don’t know. My guess- and just a guess- Signs and Glassworks was experimenting on sheets, there is some wonky stuff going on with those insert sets that shouldnt exist- refractor versions, ClearChrome versions of the Flair Chromium inserts…none of that should exist. Are they error cards, are they production testing cards… a last possibility is an aftermarket addition of the refractor finish, but I’m skeptical of that (we have a whole uncut sheet above and how would the ClearChrome’s be aftermarket- thats very specific and complex tech). I don’t know, but clearly not intended to be an official insert set. PSA by the way does not recognize them, based on the labels I see on eBay (I don’t trust grading companies to recognize super nuanced things like this). BGS however does and lists them as “Holochrome” on the label.

Edit: after just checking Jeff Allender’s page for 1995 Flair on nslists, it does mention these holochrome cards being spotted in the info at top.

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1993 Topps Star Wars Galaxy etched foil uncut sheet (Walt Simonson art)





Apparently there exists an uncut 6-panel version of this insert set. So that begs the question, is this an uncut sheet of the cards, or an uncut sheet of those uncut sheets? (And is there even a difference in this case) Since there are cut lines on the interiors of the 6-blocks, my assumption is it’s meant to be an uncut sheet of the individual cards. But not totally sure.