On-card baby! Add in a nice two-color swatch and a very reasonable price (a ten spot) and this addition is even sweeter. I really dig these 2008-2009 ITG Superlative Auto/Relics. A great job by Brian Price and the ITG crew. Here's the back of the encased card for your viewing pleasure, and it brings up an interesting point. Well, I find it interesting.
As you can see, it's the Silver Version and numbered 1 of 50. I find this interesting because it's a similar numbering to another card I own. If the above Getz looks familiar, it's because I picked up the below one right around the same time I snagged this one from eBay. And wouldn't you know it, they're both denoted as 1 of 50.
How that's possible, I don't know, but I also could care less. My best guess is that ITG is saying each of these cards is one in a print run of fifty. Either way, it's a pair of sweet Ryan Getzlaf signatures, and two distinctly different jersey pieces. I'm a happy lad. Even happier with a new picture of Erin Hawksworth to debut.
Yep, you got it. ITG tends to number their cards like that, so for a given print run of 50 cards, they will all say "1 of 50."
ReplyDeleteI guess it would be cheaper to print the same thing 50 times than to print 50 different numbers (i.e. 1/50, 2/50, etc.)
This is something I've never liked about ITG stuff...
Thanks for the clarification Paul! And yeah, I'd imagine it's cheaper and hence why they do it.
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