Sweet! I have one of those myself, Pete!
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Pete,
Is the back of yours serial numbered?
Some cool info straight from Dr. Price. He said they started hand numbering them (out of 500 for Maurice) but stopped when they knew they weren't going to be in a product. So, a lot of them are unnumbered and just have /500 on the back. Most of the other players in the set are /1000. Most are unnumbered. I do have a Brimsek one that is serial numbered 32/1000.
ITG did use these in 2004-05 ITG Ultimate for their "Scrapbook" auto subset. Most players had "Scrapbook" cards made for the product and autographed. The scrapbook corner holders were printed on the card. You can tell this card is a printed card version, as Ciccarelli's stick overlaps into the black border. They looked like this:
A Gold #/10 version
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Certain players in the subset that had these original Pre-Parkie auto cards, were used for the subset and held into the black background ITG-made "Scrapbook" card with real scrapbook corner holders. You can really see the difference.
Silver #/60 version
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Anyway, here is the back of my Rocket Pre-Parkie card with serial number 18/500. Most of these Pre-Parkie auto cards were not serial numbered as they stopped numbering them shortly after they started.
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--Curt