2001 Playoff Absolute Memorabilia Football Forum

Apparently in this set the Boss Hogg Shoes and Ground Hogg Shoes, which are numbered out of 125, only the first 25 are autographed. Should we distinguish this somehow, instead of a blanket MEM, AU, SN125 note? Just wondering....

a few sets are like that like.. where only about 6 (a few) or so cards are Auto'd and the rest aren't. but, no- thats what the notes are for. AU, MEM, SN125 on the one's that do have the auto. the distinction between the two are the wordsBoss and Gorund which are wrote on the front of each of thier associated sets

to partially correct what was asked and my response..its not that the first 25 have Auto's --- the first 25 of the 125 SN's have the "Boss Hogg" holofoil stamp. Sooooo... what i did was on the Release Notes, i added that comment, but if we need to put that info in the Note2 section, that can be done as well. 

That's a variation. I really loathe sets like that. the Precious Metal Gems in the 1997-98 Metal NBA set is like that- the first 10 are one color, the other 90 are a different color, but the serially numbering on them does not change.

I've seen sets also address that in the glossary, e.g., SN125=serial numbered to 125, first 25 autographed. No help though if you assume the abbreviation is a standard serial number and don't read the glossary. I suppose a different abbreviation could be used (SN125/AU25 maybe) but it would be nice to have those standardized rather than similar entries randomly used in different sets. 

In baseball and hockey (sports I know), Donruss did this with insert sets where the first x were die cut, and the rest were not. So say we had a SN100 card, where the first 15 were die cut. We listed them as separate sets, the die cut got SN100, PR15, the non-die cut one would get SN100, PR85 (and in the release notes we would put a blurb about which serial numbers would be found with each).

This does sound a bit different, but if each card variation is listed individually, the same can be done here. SN to the full number, and a PR for the actual number of cards issued. Note2 would be a good place to mention that one variation is the first 25 SNed and the other one is the last 100 SNed. (Or it can be stated "SNs 1-25" and "SNs 26-125" - whatever you think works best.)