Card Identification Forum

Hi Myth Busters!

I have the following Steve Nash printing plate:

2014-15 Panini National Treasures - NBA Game Gear Signatures - 15-16 National Treasures Printing Plate Black #GGS-SN 

I wanted to check if the production (original) card is available somewhere, but I couldn't find any listed on eBay or COMC. Then I wanted to find it in a checklist, and found his card doesn't exist at all in that specific set... Nash has cards in Spanning Time and Game Gear Duals sets, but comapring to pictures none of them use the layout of my Printing Plate. As the back says it has been released in 2016, I checked further releases of Timeless Treasures, but couldn't find my card anywhere.

My hypothesis: this hasn't gone production for some reason, but Printing Plates has been released. Do you think this is correct?

Nothing would be more Panini than to release printing plates of cards that were never printed. I could see them doing that.

I would say the most likely case (and something Panini has done on many occasions) is the set was released later than it indicates in a completely unrelated product.  In other words, before you just say it is a plate from an unreleased card, you would need to check pretty much every Panini basketball product since the original 14-15 National Treasures set.

Panini used different photos on the right side of the card for the signature cards & the dual memorabilia cards.  Looking at that signature set's checklist, it's clearly not set up properly (using numbers instead of the "GGS" format) & missing several players - including Nash.

I think SaintOrm has the point. Thanks all for contributing valuable comments.