Card Identification Forum

Today I came across this eBay auction for an Olerud card I had never heard of. It's always exciting (to me anyways) to learn about issues you didn't know existed, especially from 12 years ago.

Here's the auction link: https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F172945813466

I knew about the 2005 Diamond Kings Challenge program and the embossing, but I've never heard of the very first set submitted being stamped 1/1. I can't find an info online either. Does anyone know if this is a true situation? It's a pretty neat find if it is.

My first question was "why doesn't the seller show the back of the card?"

From baseballcardpedia.com 

DK Challenge Factory Set

The first 450 collectors to send into Donruss-Playoff a complete 450 base set (not including the 50 Black & White variations) would receive a special DK Challenge factory set. Each card is embossed with a special "DK Challenge" logo and packaged in a custom, serial-numbered, box. Each set would also come with a matched set of four printing plates and two random one-of-one inserts.

Baseballcardpedia was the first place I looked, though it inaccurately says it's a factory set. I'm not sure if the "random 1/1 insert" would be one like the seller has, or one of the other 1/1's included in the parallels.

Ther seller does include a picture of the back of the cards, and there is a 1/1 foil stamp, but I think these can be easily done by "entrepreneurial" sellers. 

I think "factory set" is a good description.  It's a set that is put together at the "factory" and sent to you from the "factory".  You send in a full base set, the factory embosses/stamps the complete set, repackage it in a special box, and send it back to you.

Did you ask the seller for a scan/photo of the back?

I don't get the "1/1".  It's not the only 2005 Donruss DK Challenge card in existence. There are 450 of each. It's just the only one with a "1/1" foil stamp on it.  Kind of like what ITG and Burbank Sportscards did, took a bunch of old cards and stamped a "1/1" on them.

If Panini still has the Donruss-Playoff records, they should have the answer.