1990 Donruss Red / Red card?

[ronfromfresno]

A seller, one of the recent winners of the unopened Aqueous packs, has listed two cards that resemble the blue / white test cards but these cards are Red/Red. He claims to have pulled them from the unopened packs. Anyone ever hear of these?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1990-DONRUS...0972415097?pt=US_Baseball&hash=item2a22cbe879

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1990-DONRUS...0972416856?pt=US_Baseball&hash=item2a22cbef58

 

[cgilmo]

would be great if they had one with two stars.

 

[morgoth]

That 80 point font always makes me believe people are legit. I am waiting for that rare double sided, aqueos, blue/white, NNOF, F-Face card to show up out of these packs of Aqueous.

 

[ronfromfresno]

These cards seem to come from the gap between the Aqueous test cards and the blue/white cards. Pat Sheridan is #367, Brian Downing #352, and Randy Johnson is #379. It seems that perhaps the whole set, all 700+ cards, were printed using various types of printing. Maybe the story that Donruss was testing different types of printing to perfect the process is true. This could also explain why the Aqueous cards are marked on the back. Since other "red" cards were printed it was easier to indentify which cards were printed using which processes. I wonder if there are other cards printed with other processes that will start popping up now?

 

[Bob Loblaw]

superglue two cards together... there ya go.

 

[tunahead]

The seller of the Aqueous Packs also had a few of these Red/Red singles for sale, I think he had 4 different ones

 

[jbrown]

superglue two cards together... there ya go.

Would make sense but look at the auctions. You can tell that one side of the card has the typical gloss on one side, and the back has the typical back surface but instead of stats it has a pic. It is very noticeable on the Randy Johnson side. You can tell it is a paper surface with no gloss.

Sorry for the huge pics. Borrowed them from the auction.

 

[ronfromfresno]

superglue two cards together... there ya go.

That would be my first assumption but you can tell from the photos in the auction that the cards have a different finish on each side. One side with a "gloss" and the other side with a "flat" finish, mimicking the finish of the 1990 Donruss regular issue cards.

 

[tunahead]

That would be my first assumption but you can tell from the photos in the auction that the cards have a different finish on each side. One side with a "gloss" and the other side with a "flat" finish, mimicking the finish of the 1990 Donruss regular issue cards.

Yeah they are similar to the Blue/White test, where the White side is printed on the non-glossy back of the card

 

[MartinFFcollector]

Hella cool that undiscovered finds like this pop up!

 

[RAZOR-Z]

I got these 2 last time he had them up:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/380455035307

http://www.ebay.com/itm/380455024764

 

[morgoth]

looks like printers scrap to me

 

[BunchOBull]

Yeah, printer's scrap...seller is riding the wave of the Aqueous pack busts. Hope I'm wrong though.

 

[KCListingService]

I listed a RED/RED Sheet!

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[Ameyer1979]

Hello!
I am late to the party...looks like there are more of these rare red/red cards out there! We just discovered about 1100 of these cards in a box handed down to my husband from his dad (about 180-190 different sets ranging from 7-10 cards per set). They were purchased 1990-91 time frame and purchased as a lot with some other cards. They are open packages but they sat in the box they came in for the last 30 years and are in pristine condition. They came already cut. From the research we have done, someone said they were proof pages that were scraps. They are usually discarded, but this person thought some were “backdoored”. I can tell you that they are still hard to find info on, and pricing on eBay is scarce as there just doesn’t seem to be a lot out there.
Hoping to research a little more before we start selling to get a good price point for some of our good players/hall of famers. Just wanted to jump in here to let you all know that more have surfaced. Would love to get any tips or insight in how to price out some of these. We inventoried all of them and I can provide some lists of the good ones we have. I will post a sample pic of the couple we took pics of...and here is a link to a YouTube video that shows the cards in action to prove they are real!

 

[finestkind]

 

[DonnieBaseball]

I would be interested if there is a Mattingly


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[onionring9]

I'd be interested in a McGwire if one is there!

 

[jszczech]

Pm sent

 

[miked211]

Is there a Dale Murphy in this set?