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This week I discovered a fourth variation of this card. This one featuring a silver strip but missing the silver facsimile signature, which is depicted here. This new discovery has me thinking of an additional theory behind this error:
Theory #3:
The sheet of black strips and the sheet of silver strips to be stamped with silver facsimile signature somehow got switched during the printing process. This flip created an opportunity for the black strip base card to be stamped with the silver signature while leaving the silver strip variations without the intended silver facsimile signatures. I don’t know how difficult these are to obtain but to my knowledge, they aren’t cataloged in any price guides. My question is, do all of the players featured in the Up Close & Personal subset possess the same error variations?
Less the rare Gold Signature parallel, here are the 4 other variations:
- Base card with Black strip (correct)
- Silver Signature parallel with Silver strip (correct)
- Silver Signature parallel with Black strip (error)
- Base card with Silver strip (error)
To my knowledge, the two error variations are extremely scarce and often go unnoticed by many collectors. It’s very easy to miss this error if you don’t know it exists. I got both of mine for just a few bucks each and the sellers listed them as if they were the correct versions. Keep your eyes out for the error variations as they’re easy to miss.
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Okay so question. my cards have a completely silver signature and all the cards i’ve seen have black with the silver outline. They’re 1994 ud collectors choice. Are they silver signature or something else?
Hi Bri,
I’m a little bit confused; maybe you can help me understand. Can you more clearly define the cards that you are describing? If you can provide a link to an example, that would help out quite a bit. My guess is that if they have silver outlines, they are the silver signatures. The silver outlining was featured in the ’95 CC SE set. As for the ’94, to my knowledge, they still feature the white boarder. I hope this helps, and look forward to hearing from you. Thanks for reading! 🙂
I have 4 Ken Griffey Jr. Variations. Base card with Black Stip, Silver Signature with Silver Strip, Silver Signature with Black Strip and Base card with, what looks like a white strip, rather than silver. Is the white strip a 5th variation?
Each card in the Up Close & Personal sub set can be found in five different versions:
Base: Black strip with no foil signature
Silver Signature: Silver strip with silver signature
Gold Signature: Gold strip with gold signature
Variation A: Black strip with silver signature
Variation B: Off-white strip with no foil signature
Hello sir I was researching the Silver Signature with Black Strip which I recently acquired which led me to this article. My question is since the card isn’t officially listed in Beckett as an error card and considering it’s rarity, what is the cards current value in the market? I’ve seen a few on ebay for around $100, is this an accurate price or should it be more? By the way, the light tan variation is an exclusive from the factory box set. I personally have all the versions except the gold.
These variations are relatively rare but they aren’t extremely desirable, which means they can often be had for low prices. When I bought my Jordan Silver Sig. Black Strip variation on eBay back in 2010, I won it for $0.99 and I was the only bidder. Shortly thereafter, I bought the Jordan No Sig. Silver Strip variation for $3 shipped. Sure, knowledge has gotten around a bit since then and articles on each of those cards have been published on this site but while prices have increased slightly, as I publish this reply, eBay comps for these two Jordan variations show final values all for <$20. I still think opportunities exist where each of these variations can be had for just a few bucks. While they are rarer than their corrected versions, enough of each were printed to go around.