[marcmapex]

I checked the Beckett database and saw there is no 1/1 for the Oakland A's Team Quad double prime swatch cards. Yet I've come across what seems to be a post-prod restamping of a double prime spectrum (black) card. It's weird, as the database states serially numbered cards are to 5 copies at the lowest- not 1 copy. The numbers are in the wrong area as well, compared to where the machine typically stamps.

On top of that, there is a "Donruss Special Edition" stamp that is covering Damon's bat pose, normally where the machine serial # stamp goes.

Now, I'm confused as I am a Damon collector, so I thought I had all copies that could possibly exist but now see that there is a rogue 1/1 card.

Do you think it is from a Prime Cuts buyback or something? Or just a counterfeit? Or real? Maybe Beckett did not get the full checklist in 2005...hmmm

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I checked the Beckett database and saw there is no 1/1 for the Oakland A's Team Quad double prime swatch cards. Yet I've come across what seems to be a post-prod restamping of a double prime spectrum (black) card. It's weird, as the database states serially numbered cards are to 5 copies at the lowest- not 1 copy. The numbers are in the wrong area as well, compared to where the machine typically stamps.

On top of that, there is a "Donruss Special Edition" stamp that is covering Damon's bat pose, normally where the machine serial # stamp goes.

Now, I'm confused as I am a Damon collector, so I thought I had all copies that could possibly exist but now see that there is a rogue 1/1 card.

Do you think it is from a Prime Cuts buyback or something? Or just a counterfeit? Or real? Maybe Beckett did not get the full checklist in 2005...hmmm

One #'rd to 5:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/2005-Absolute-Te...3675418%26


one #'rd to 1

http://www.ebay.com/itm/2005-ABSOLUTE-TE...9702069%26

[djohn]

I don't think it was originally packed out with 2005 Absolute. Card companies make non-serial numbered versions to use as replacements for damaged cards. They could have used the non-serial numbered one to create a "Special Edition" that they put into a product a year or so later (sort of like a buy-back). By the same stand-point when a company goes bankrupt the non-serial numbered replacement cards easily make it into the open market. So someone could have just added the 1/1 and "Donruss Special Edition" stamp afterwards. It's tough to say, unless someone else knows anything about the "Donruss Special Edition" stamp and whether it was really done by Donruss.

[dustin12368]

Could have been a card from one of the shows back in the day, but those are listed in beckett

[marcmapex]

the seller assures authenticity. Yeah, if it was something like a Chicago Sun Times post-prod stamp I would believe it to be categorized. Maybe it is, but under a different year. I have some from '02-'03, but not '05.

It could be a replacement card for something like a redemption in products years later, but at least from what I can tell it is not technically being categorized as a 2005 card. I think I'll call my rainbow complete without paying $200+ for this card (if it had a sweet Damon patch I would reconsider though)

[dustin12368]

Well if you compare it to the other , there would be no way remove the stamp 4/5 and replace with 1/1

[demondukk]

Could be from a conference or tradeshow where Donruss gave out "black box" style packages to dealers with special versions of existing cards i.e. 1/1 parallels, die-cuts and autographed versions. Companies have been doing that sort of thing for years. Panini still does.

Or it could even be an internal special edition card. I know employees get these kinds of things all the time. And employee issued cards wouldn't make the database because they're not a "release" or on a checklist.

No offense to A's collectors but i doubt it's faked because that seems like alot of work for a few $100 sale on eBay. Not like it's faking a 1/1 on a Mantle/Gehrig/Ruth/Jeter quad or something.