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Originally Posted by the27guy
To answer you about the quantity, they are numbered on the back. They’re exactly like any of the other prop cards. Most big collectors look at them the same way as they do the rare autos or rare props at this point. They’re on the same checklists etc, and they look identical on the front and the back to a card that you’d expect to get out of a pack. So the serial number is there.
But did they really make 40 (even though they’re numbered to 40?) I don’t know.
I’ve done enough research at this point though to make me suspicious that there really were 40 cards made. There is virtually nothing out there.
I had a friend message me with “the images of the old yak shack forum” of the card. It gave us one new copy and one we already had. We have images of 4 copies. Four!!!
worthpoint still has a ton of images of HP Artbox. It has zero of the ticket.
eBay’s 3 year tool has the one that was from the old yakshack site.
Yakshack gave us one more.
I have a friend who owns one.
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Gotcha, I wasnt aware we had hard evidence the card was even numbered /40 on back since I didnt see any pics of the back, but if your friend owns one, that settles that it's at least numbered to 40.
I agree, looking at the reconstruction of the ticket on IG from the 4 pieces, no way 40 are coming from that. Multiple tickets used for the prop would be the only way out of that I think.
It's a doozy for sure, why there are so few examples to be seen. But that seems to be the case with a lot of these rare HP relics, not just this. How many Basilisk fangs or Letters from Hogwarts from CoS come to market, or pretty much any of those relics above. Even the triple auto, of which there may be upwards of 100, is so rare to come to market. A lot of high end HP artbox is deeply buried in collections I think.
It's crazy youd have to buy more than 6% of the run to get the incentive. The amount of these actually earned would have to be far less than even 16, as 16 is if the whole run was exhausted by dealers earning 50 caser incentives. It could even be just few at most.
*If* artbox held a bunch back for other purposes, then who knows. It's conceivable there could be far less than 40 out there even if they printed 40, as maybe destroyed surplus, lost when they went out of business, or lost when given to the Studio by people maybe not familiar with cards or collecting...it's been two decades.
I would be curious if you find out any info regarding them from ex-artbox people. This has to be up there in the top prop cards of the whole series.