Card Identification Forum

I acquired several basketball NT printing plates at a card show yesterday and was adding them into my collection. I found most of them, but have not located 2 of them. The cards have a 2021 Panini America copyright (based on the other plates I acquired and located already listed here, this would make them 2020-21 product). However, these particular plate sets weren't able to be found. The 2 cards are listed as being:

2019-20 Panini - National Treasures Basketball Game Gear Cyan Plate #23 Eric Bledsoe (Milwaukee Bucks)

2019-20 Panini - Immaculate Collection Basketball The Standard Black Plate #92 Anthony Davis (Los Angeles Lakers)

If anybody can help me confirm these are missing, I would be glad to help out with the creating of the checklist for listing these. My issue is the numbering is different than the actual sets already listed here (most are with letters, but the plates are just numbers) and a lack of knowledge if each card's plate was actually released. Also, there is a location for 2019-20 Panini National Treasures Game Gear Cyan Plates under the 2019-20 product, but using the letter-style numbers. Is that where the Bledsoe card would go or should the set be moved since it has the copyright for 2021 as the product it was actually relased in?

Apologies for so many questions on the subject, and any help is greatly appreciated.

Anybody with any imput?

Regarding the Eric Bledsoe, I think your card is here and the set is mis-numbered. I've seen that happen where Panini plates stick with regular numbers even though the cards are actually something like "GG-initials." It also seems likely based on the date on the back that the plate was inserted in a slightly more recent product, but since it's not obvious which one, we shouldn't move them anywhere until that comes to light (if at all). If you or anyone else happens to find more of the printing plate numbers for the Game Gear cards we can easily update them. For example, besides Bledsoe being #23, COMC has Kyle Lowry as #18 and Steven Adams as #34.

As for the The Standard plates, I also don't know exactly where they may have been inserted, but you can find a bunch of numbers when you search COMC including sold out cards (and ignore the made up site numbering and look at the backs). I don't see any evidence of that set on the site so the checklist would need to be created. It'll be a bit tough to do since there's 100 cards and while we have the right players and teams, we don't know all the numbers, but it may be possible to piece them together from COMC, eBay, et al.

I have asked the guy I acquired those cards from, and he said they did in fact both come from 2020-21 Panini National Treasures. That was what I was thinking about the Bledsoe but wasn't sure. I didn't even think about looking them up on COMC and eBay just yet since I was primarily wanting to make sure I hadn't overlooked them here somewhere. I can work on looking these up and making a checklist this evening on The Standard plates. Do you think we should begin switching the numbers over on the ones we locate for Game Gear? Thanks for the help.

The Game Gear cards are in progress and almost done pending a few IRs (re-sorts and moves). Thanks for finding out that they came from 2020-21 National Treasures, that's very helpful.

Vrooomed sent me a message that since the plates had regular numbers we could probably look up the original (and usually inaccurate) checklists on a site like Cardboard Connection. Sure enough, that numerical checklist matched all of the cards we had numbers for, so I edited all four sets to match those. The sets are getting sorted and then moved under 20-21 NT.

Since the "The Standard" plates sets don't exist yet, I'll create them under 20-21 NT, and I can add those once you put together the checklist. You should be able to find the original #1-100 checklist the same way I did above and build it out. Please make sure you have columns for cardnum, player, and team, plus the note column will be SN1.

Update: the Game Gear printing plates are all set and your card can be found right here.

Awesome. Thank you so much for your help. It may be an hour or so before I can create the checklists, but it shouldn't be much problem since they likely would coordinate with lists from Carboard Connection, etc. but will check based off of ones I have found proof on numbering for. Thanks for that bit of advice. That will go a long way in helping me.

Didn't take as long as expected to confrim the checklist. It is ready to go when the slot is made for uploading via Excel spreadsheet.

You can upload your checklist to the Black Plate set here, and after we make sure everything looks good, that can be copied over to the other three colors.

Uploaded. Also went ahead and did verification check on names and teams and everything showed up correctly. Appreciate all of the help.