Topps / OPC Chrome Silver Prototypes

[joel88]

Hey,

I recently picked up an interesting and unique Lindros card for my collection.

It was a version of the 98-99 OPC Chrome. It's shiny like a chrome card but bendable and has a silver back.

It was called a "Silver Press Plate Prototype" but it's not metal like other press plates and were originally from uncut sheets.

Does anyone else have or seen any of these??

Here is a Scan of the Front and Back of the Lindros.

 

[Greg Brown]

This is probably one of those "proofs" that people were making by soaking the base chrome cards and peeling away a layer. It's not a proof or plate of anything, its a rip-off! There are other posts about these sort of things buried in the archives. I mistakenly bought one years ago in my baseball collection, not realizing what had been done!

 

[webottew]

Likely related to the "Plate Proofs" discussed here.

Basically, most of the older chrome cards can be "washed" in water to separate the card stock (back) from the chrome stock (front)

Likely not legitimately acquired from a sheet or Topps. More of a custom novelty item -- which is fine if advertised that way.

 

[Fritz]

That's the ticket. Soak in water, peel cardboard then rinse - repeat

 

[joel88]

Too bad I wasn't on HI yet in 2009.

Thanks for the info guys.

Good thing I didn't pay much for it and at least it's something unique, worhtless yes, but unique.

 

[Fritz]

Too bad I wasn't on HI yet in 2009.

Thanks for the info guys.

Good thing I didn't pay much for it and at least it's something unique, worhtless yes, but unique.

they are kind of neat, you can see the 3d effect topps used to make the cards

 

[Frendo]

Haha...
This has also happened woth me...

I was also ripped off by the false "proof" cards from 95-96 Finest (luckly wasn't expensive exactly) and I actually bidded on a 98-99 or 99-00 OPC Chrome "proof" who ended at almsot $30 and of course

Of cours ein the end was I furious because I actually thought that the card ineed was a 1/1 as the seller falsely described as at the item description.

But when I saw a thread here about those "proofs" I got relieved that I didn't won the auction....but I does enjoy my backpeeled Finest 95-96 after all....but to think how much the seller has earned when he/she ripped off from all us who did bought those false"proofs" scares me...

 

[IrbeFan4Life]

Sometimes they do fall into the packs that way by accident. I pulled a Joe Sakic without the back part from a similarily made product straight from the pack. A fun and unique item that I didn't soak in water.

Otherwise, yeah, they are a scam.

Speaking of scam, also watch out for those supposed "Pacific press plates" that are out in the marketplace. I got one in the mail recently and noticed that the date of manufacture on the back of the metal was August 2009, almost five years after they went bankrupt...now how does that work?