I'm some what confussed with these press plates. Beckett lists 8 cards for Greg Maddux, 3 of them being plates. It states each card has 8 plates, four colors for front and 4 colors for back. I recently picked up 1997 New Pinnacle Press Plates #K2 KEEP Cyan back. On the backside of the card it says 1/1 but beckett lists print run at 8. So in theory there's 24 total 1/1's ? Why after so many years don't they list 29 total cards for maddux or i'm i missing something here? I understand some plates actually have a print run of 4 cards each for example topps milestones and those cards are listed correctly as print run 4.
Anyway.. Do i have a 1/1 or a 1/8 ? LOL. Anybody have any of these in your collection ? Were you aware any combination of four press plates from same card back then had a huge pay day if returned by a certain date?
1997 New Pinnacle #3
1997 New Pinnacle Artist's Proofs #3
1997 New Pinnacle Interleague Encounter #7 Maddux/ M.Vaughn
1997 New Pinnacle Keeping the Pace #2
1997 New Pinnacle Museum Collection #3
1997 New Pinnacle Press Plates #3 Print Run 8
1997 New Pinnacle Press Plates #I7A IE Print Run 8
1997 New Pinnacle Press Plates #K2 KEEP Print Run 8
Randomly inserted in packs at the rate of one in 1,250, this all-aluminum set consists of the Authentic Press Plate that transfers the ink to the cardboard for each individual card back and front. Each plate displays an authentication seal on the back along with the personal signature of Pinnacle Chairman and CEO, Jerry Meyer. Each card has eight press plates for each of the four colors used in printing the front and the back. All cards from both the regular sets as well as the insert sets were inserted into packs. A collector who put together any combination of the four press plates from the same card front or back could return the plates to Pinnacle by August 22, 1997 for a bounty of $35,000. A sliding reward scale was imposed with a $30,000 bounty for plates received by August 29, 1997, $25,000 for those received by September 5, 1997, and $20,000 for those received after September 5 but before December 31, 1997.
Anyway.. Do i have a 1/1 or a 1/8 ? LOL. Anybody have any of these in your collection ? Were you aware any combination of four press plates from same card back then had a huge pay day if returned by a certain date?
1997 New Pinnacle #3
1997 New Pinnacle Artist's Proofs #3
1997 New Pinnacle Interleague Encounter #7 Maddux/ M.Vaughn
1997 New Pinnacle Keeping the Pace #2
1997 New Pinnacle Museum Collection #3
1997 New Pinnacle Press Plates #3 Print Run 8
1997 New Pinnacle Press Plates #I7A IE Print Run 8
1997 New Pinnacle Press Plates #K2 KEEP Print Run 8
Randomly inserted in packs at the rate of one in 1,250, this all-aluminum set consists of the Authentic Press Plate that transfers the ink to the cardboard for each individual card back and front. Each plate displays an authentication seal on the back along with the personal signature of Pinnacle Chairman and CEO, Jerry Meyer. Each card has eight press plates for each of the four colors used in printing the front and the back. All cards from both the regular sets as well as the insert sets were inserted into packs. A collector who put together any combination of the four press plates from the same card front or back could return the plates to Pinnacle by August 22, 1997 for a bounty of $35,000. A sliding reward scale was imposed with a $30,000 bounty for plates received by August 29, 1997, $25,000 for those received by September 5, 1997, and $20,000 for those received after September 5 but before December 31, 1997.