90's pacific card show stamped cards value?

I am curious to hear if anyone knows anything of these cards - apparently back in the 90's, Pacific went to card shows around the nation and had the card show logo embossed on some pacific cards. Was curious to hear if anyone knew anything of their value for stars.

I have 4 or 5 Puckett cards. If I remember right I paid around $10 each for them.

In the mid to late 90's, Pacific would bring an embossing machine to larger shows and allow you to get one card embossed if you opened a pack at their booth. I was at two Chicagoland shows where they did that. Later, from 1999-2001, they changed it to a foil stamp. The embossed cards don't scan too well - in fact, I haven't even scanned my Grace embossed. Below are some of the 1999-2001 foil stamps, from such shows as the National, Sportsfest Chicago, Sportsfest Philadelphia, Comic Con, Wizard World, and MLB Fan Fest. I don't think there's any resource that has a comprehensive list of shows they attended. You just find them now and again, not as much these days though. Certain dealers who went to most the shows seemed to have the majority of them, as they would open product at the shows and get the best cards stamped. Common players and minor stars will be tough to find.

Value-wise, I'd place a higher value on cards from the National. I think the foil cards are harder to find than the embossed ones. For Grace, I want to pay $3-$5 for embossed, $5-$7 for foil. Often, I've paid less - been able to buy in lots for many.

Very cool info, thanks!

gracecollector said:

In the mid to late 90's, Pacific would bring an embossing machine to larger shows and allow you to get one card embossed if you opened a pack at their booth. I was at two Chicagoland shows where they did that. Later, from 1999-2001, they changed it to a foil stamp. The embossed cards don't scan too well - in fact, I haven't even scanned my Grace embossed. Below are some of the 1999-2001 foil stamps, from such shows as the National, Sportsfest Chicago, Sportsfest Philadelphia, Comic Con, Wizard World, and MLB Fan Fest. I don't think there's any resource that has a comprehensive list of shows they attended. You just find them now and again, not as much these days though. Certain dealers who went to most the shows seemed to have the majority of them, as they would open product at the shows and get the best cards stamped. Common players and minor stars will be tough to find.

Value-wise, I'd place a higher value on cards from the National. I think the foil cards are harder to find than the embossed ones. For Grace, I want to pay $3-$5 for embossed, $5-$7 for foil. Often, I've paid less - been able to buy in lots for many.

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Good info. I have a handful of embossed Daultons. Never knew about the foil.

The thing with the embossing was that it didn't have to be cards from the pack you opened either.. I've seen pacific cards going back to the 93 set embossed for sale and cards from just about every set they offered. the possibilities with these are practically endless. I think I have 2 or 3 of them and I stopped even thinking about buying them after that.

1st4040 said:

The thing with the embossing was that it didn't have to be cards from the pack you opened either.. I've seen pacific cards going back to the 93 set embossed for sale and cards from just about every set they offered. the possibilities with these are practically endless. I think I have 2 or 3 of them and I stopped even thinking about buying them after that.

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I never went but I'm assuming you weren't limited to the cards made that year. I'm assuming you could buy a pack of '93 and have one embossed.

onionring9 said:

I never went but I'm assuming you weren't limited to the cards made that year. I'm assuming you could buy a pack of '93 and have one embossed.

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That's exactly right - you could have a pack of 93 and they would emboss. I just spoke at length with a dealer that did this, and that was the promotion. You could get one card of any pack embossed as long as it was a pacific product, regardless of year or sport - but it had to be opened in front of the pacific reps.

I've got 6-10 Clark Embossed , I'll pick up in the $5-7 range, and a few foils I've paid $10ish each for. Them there are the ones serial /5 (some even /1) I think. I have a few of the Clark's and missed out on one I wanted that went BIN for $30 that I wish I would have caught.

Ryan

I believe I have picked up one McGriff one so far.

a few of my embossed... Never got em done personally. Just acquired these over the years...