1999 Ultra Baseball Forum

Am I correct in assuming that the 6 listed promo cards are cards that have been cut from the promo sheet, or were they individually produced as well?

I would make that same assumption (without knowing 100%).

Thanks Dan!

Was this a perforated sheet or solid? If solid, the singles have to be removed, correct?

Solid sheet-no perfs

David

I don't think that's necessarily true, Ed.

If the cards cut from the sheet would be indistinguishable from some other issued individual cards, then the ones cut from the sheet would not get their own listing, for sure.

If the sheet was designed to not be cut up, for example if the printing on the back was not related to the image on the front, then the cut pieces would not be listable as cards.  (The first example I can think of to illustrate this condition is the Finish Line Commemorative Sheets where 'cut cards' would be blank backed and not listable.)

If the sheets are perforated, then the separated cards are listable; but I don't think that not perforated would inherently make them not listable.

Looking at this sheet on eBay, I'm thinking that the cut cards are listable.  If the intent was that the sheets would be kept whole, why would they have printed "Promotional Sample" on the front and back of each card?  Wouldn't it be just splashed across the whole sheet?

That's my take on it anyway.

-Tom

BigEd76 wrote:

Was this a perforated sheet or solid? If solid, the singles have to be removed, correct?

With Ultra and other Fleer brands, not necessarily. They usually did the diagonal "Promotional Sample" across all their sample cards.

From what I understand of the site guidelines, we aren't supposed to list cards that were cut from solid panels -- only ones that were designed to be broken apart (perforated).

I worked in a shop at this time and remember getting a stack of the base Alex Rodriguez promotional samples from Fleer. That one was definitely issued cut by Fleer.

Maybe 'Sample Sheet' should come out of the name of the singles set.

I have updated the set names. In my opinion, the singles should stay as they have the appearance of being designed to exist by themselves, and we have a report of at least one of them allegedly being issued that way.