2014-15 Panini National Treasures Basketball Forum

Hi Collectors!

I have a Printing Plate related to the NBA Game Gear Signatures insert set. I noticed Printing Plates sets are listed here, but I assume they belong to the base set. Should I add a checklist for my Printing Plates as a parallel set of my specific set - or is it already listed somewhere? I could also ask this question in general: what is the the preferred/consistent method for keeping track of Printing Plates on this is site?

Thanks,
Gabor

Printing plate sets are listed as separate inserts/parallels. If you can post a scan in the mystery card forum somebody here may be able to create the listing for you with a checklist. 

Some companies like to insert the plates in with the product with which they were used.

Other companies prefer to hold on to them and issue several products (and maybe even years) as its own product. (This is where our methods of cataloguing can make things confusing as we like to keep sets with the products they were released.) In cases like this, a release note or trivia item stating that the printing plates for this set were relased in another product would be very useful.

As for the plate you speak of, we have the plates for the base set listed and I found a listing on ebay for one - I see the sticker on the reverse shows a copyright date of 2016, indicating that these were, in fact, not released with the product, but I have not been able to find the info on the product in which it was released. Maybe one of our basketball experts can recall.

Almost surely they were in a later year of National Treasures. 

Now that Admin allows for the linking of inserts across multiple sets, perhaps we have a good solution.

If printing plate A is actually relased in product B, we can create the printing plate parallel in set A and create the printing plate insert in set B, with both linking to the same set.

So it looks like the production card of my Printing Plate has never been released, only printing plates appeared in boxes - just like as Billy said - a year later in the same product. That means Panini removed a few cards from this set before releasing the product.

So I took the originial checklist, converted the numeric format to initials (as shown on the printing plates). Then inserted my missing Nash list item, reordered the results to alphabetical order. As we don't know which further players are missing from the original set, compared to the printing plates - this method is not 100% accurate, but still the best practice, I think.

Can you guys take a look on the checklist of the black version? I am ready to add this checklist to the further color parallels if you say this can be the way to go.