[pucknballs]

Hello,

I just purchased a Tom Brady 2004 showcase grace ruby patch card, The ruby version is Ser #'d to only 14. However I got the card and on the back is the blank square where the stamp should be but it is not. I haven't been able to find any others to see if those are not stamped as well.


Any help would be great.

[ZeroDave]

It could be one of their cards that came out of the vault after Fleer went bankrupt. I won't touch any of them that are not serial numbered. Too many fakes floating around.

[jacobystealshome]

Yep, that is absolutely a bankruptcy card

[ugameck]

Yep, that is absolutely a bankruptcy card

Bingo. Those were produced in case a card was damaged - Fleer would replace it with the new cards and stick the patch in it.

Tons of those cards were sold in the bankruptcy and shady folks out there started selling them as the legit items.

[pucknballs]

Thanks for all the feedback on this issue... The person I bought it off of (EBAY) didn't try to pass it off as the ruby /14 version, they simply put it on as a brady jersey card. I seen it was the ruby version and took a chance it was serial numbered. I got it for a cheap price so I'm not to worried about it. Thanks again

[djohn]

Bingo. Those were produced in case a card was damaged - Fleer would replace it with the new cards and stick the patch in it.

Tons of those cards were sold in the bankruptcy and shady folks out there started selling them as the legit items.

100% correct. The Fleer bankruptcy definitely littered eBay with semi-fake cards (i.e. non-serial numbered cards that should have serial numbers, sometimes with jersey pieces sometimes without). It is really annoying when the seller knows that they have a card from the bankruptcy sale but tries to play it off as pack pulled.