Card Identification Forum

This appears to be a yellow printing plate from the countdown to stardom 2002Pacific Atomic set. https://www.tcdb.com/ViewCollection.cfm/sid/37283

My question is, what additional information will be needed to get the printing plate sets listed?

On ebay currently there are two magenta's and a cyan from this set, and this is a yellow one, but that is a long ways from showing that all cards in this set have a printing plate.

Thanks. 

I'd say your photo is enough proof to get the yellow plate parallel set added.

It may differ by set, but these plates are typically not found in packs. Instead they were available in a multi-card plastic screwdown containing all of the plates for a particular card. I do not know if they were redemptions or something you could just order from Pacific. They are known as Pacific Treasury Collection. Here is an example on ebay

https://www.ebay.com/itm/404004475350

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/-DcAAOSwDCpesRcG/s-l1600.jpg

Actually, a member is reaching out to the former president of Pacific to verify the validity of these plates as they differ wildly from ones that were in other Pacific products. Please hold off on adding these (for now). Thank you.

I've just done that and will report back with what I find out. This topic has come up before and it's tricky because there are some plates available that certainly could be real along with some that after some investigation are obvious fakes because portions of the cards the plates wouldn't be responsible for (such as spots with foil) are present on the plates. That and you'll see one or two sellers making hundreds of plates available but they're all just a single color.

But I'm also very interested in their authenticity because I have one each from football and hockey that I'd like to verify.

So based on what we can find out from the former president if he's nice enough to reply, we can figure out if any other checklists should be added or removed from the DB.

Hi all, sorry for the delay on this, I've been busy. Long story short, what I heard back from the person from Pacific is that plates that don't have the "Pacific 1/1 [color]" stamp on the backs are fake. Therefore,

1. Any current plate sets we have listed here that do have the stamp will remain with one possible exception...
2. We may still scrutinize/investigate plates that look suspect a bit more, generally the types I mentioned before that include elements on the plate that don't belong there because they would have been applied separately (like foil)
3. Missing checklists of plates that meet the stamp guideline (like the one mentioned by the OP) CAN be added. Ideally folks will request those through the proper channels going forward with IRs, though this was correctly asked about in a thread first, because it wasn't "Please add these" so much as "Should these be added."
4. We're in the process of chasing down and removing just a few sets that we now know no longer qualify. So far they've all been under hockey and are the following:

• 1999-00 Pacific Dynagon Ice - Press Plates
• 1999-00 Pacific Prism - Printing Plate
• 2000-01 Pacific Paramount - Printing Plates
• 2002-03 Pacific Prism Platinum McDonald's - Printing Plates

I just wanted to mention that somewhere so members didn't wonder why some of their cards disappeared
5. We're also working on adding comments to the sets that are having faked plates removed so they don't get re-added by accident in the future

I hope everyone involved/affected is reasonably satisfied with the outcome of this. Thank you for your patience and bringing this to the attention of the site as we were able to get a definitive answer that helps us with future questions!

Do they know whether the plates were released in packs or were only realeased in the sets that I pointed out?

@OP, I've added the checklists for all four colors of the plates. I'm not sure if fronts and backs exist so for now I've just created one checklist per color, but it would be easy to change things up to include backs if necessary. You can now add your collection (and images) here.

@tpxcards, they didn't mention those but I guess I only asked a general question about what they knew to be real and fake. But in general I think we already know that most if not all of their plates were not inserted into packs as they were never mentioned when listing insert odds, nor were they advertised as something that could be pulled, so they were usually backdoored. That said, the ones you found are interesting, I'd never seen those sets before!