Card Identification Forum

I pulled an Ichiro card with a black border numbered to /10  All I see on all checklists is that red borders are to 10.  Is it an error??  I saw someome else pulled the same thing on ebay as well.  Has anyone seen this?  Thanks!

Terry

I'll let the checklist experts weigh in but wanted to say that's a beautiful pull!

I checked both cardboardconnection and baseballcardpedia, and both list the Red version as having the SN10. It seems to have been done in error. What series did you pull it from?

Nice pull by the way.

Thank you!  It was a Series 1 blaster box pull. 

Looking on ebay the Reds are indeed numbered to 10 and are very red and the blacks are numbered to 199, which there are examples of Ichiro's card being correctly serial numbered, and this appears to be the black parallel.  So I would have to agree this is an error on Topps part.  So cha-ching?  There is one other possibility which would also still make it an error there is a auto version of this card numbered to 10, but it has the auto blurp just above the reprint, so this doesn't look to be the autograph card missing an auto, but they are stickers for this set.   That being said I couldn't find an image of Ichiro's red version for this set.  So it being Topps and all, who knows?

Thanks guys!  I was very puzzled by this. I have it logged under the red border in the checklist because there was no where else to log it. I guess it's just an error. I also didn't see anyone else pull a red border or at least log it. Odd... 

On a related note, does Topps customer service (or really any manufacturer) ever verify or investigate these kinds of questions where there's a potential error or just verifying that something is legitimate?