Desert Shield

[Zach Wheat]

Fyre,

Thanks for your service. Unopened Packs are selling for around $150 currently on BBCE. The issue is that regular Topps issue cards have the same exact wrapping as the DS cards. Buyers often discount the price of their packs depending upon the surety that the cards are legitimately DS cards.

For instance BBCE will guarantee their packs are legit and have a great track record. Joe XYZ with 0 feedback will have trouble getting the same price.

I can't answer your other questions but I am sure others will chime in.

Z Wheat

[scmavl]

I have a BBCE sealed pack I'll let go for $140 if anyone wants it. (sorry for the spam!)

[brob28]

Zach, do you have any photos of the uncut sheets? I'd love to see them.

[Zach Wheat]

Originally Posted by brob28

Zach, do you have any photos of the uncut sheets? I'd love to see them.

Bill,

I am in the midst of traveling and my trip just got extended. The sheets are rather large and they are difficult to "scan"; following is a cropped pic of Sheet F. The sheets are 28 1/2 X 43 inches with 132 cards equally printed in 6 sheets. Sheet F is the sheet which contains the 5 cards previously listed with an *E/*F sheet code as well as the only card without a sheet code designation (Cal Ripken #5), the uncorrected checklists and the Chipper Jones card.

Sheet F also has the highest serial number on the right border. I initially suspected the code was the print date & batch # for quality control purposes, but am not sure. If it is a date & batch code, then the sheets had short print run of a couple of days.

I will post more when I return.

Z Wheat

[brob28]

That is an awesome site Zack! BTW - your print run theory makes sense to me, with only 6,000 (I believe) sets printed I would guess it would not take long to print these.