1999 SPx Football Forum

These are 1/1 and supposed to be serialized on the back. There is an eBay seller who has a couple of these. They have been graded by Beckett but with the notation that there is no 1/1 serial number. I have seen others with the serial number so I was trying to figure out if these got into packs missing the serial number, or did UD print a few but not serial number them, and then sold them off during bankruptcy. I am inclined to think of it along the lines of those Collectors Edge cards that were only partially finished and then sold off. I guess having it graded by Beckett is what is making me think about it as possibly a version of the card? I keep remembering the Topps promotion that they opened the “vault” and gave away mint condition cards that had been sitting held back from being released. Except those were never numbered so it doesn’t matter how many were held back.

Upper Deck isn't bankrupt. It's possible they had unnumbered replacements that got out somehow, either through a legit exchange for a damaged card or through alternate means ("backdoor"). Those aren't documented on the site since the ones available to the public have numbers.

Having trouble remembering the details (1999 MVP maybe) but there was at least one baseball release that had non SN 1/1s show up in retail or other means