Can we make a list of official authentic cricket signature cards with the number of each produced considering there have not been that many? Would be very helpful to collect.
Can we make a list of official authentic cricket signature cards with the number of each produced considering there have not been that many? Would be very helpful to collect.
ASCC mag has details of all checklists from the cricket sets released. Those provide details of the signature cards in each release, but no detail of numbers of each signature card released.
Happy to be corrected on this, but I think the introduction of signature and insert cards for Australian released cards was first done by Select with its 1993 AFL series, and then NRL releases followed suite in 1994.
So that seems to be about the time within Australia across all sports trading cards - don't know about other countries.
I believe before that some slighty earlier cricket sets (stimoral gum??) left a designated blank area for an autograph, but that was on a DIY basis for collectors.
Others more wiser on such matters may be able to provide more insight.
You might also want to have a look at Nazimcricket's website, which has a lot of images of autographed cards and you may be able to cross reference your list to that.
Appreciate the compliment. Don't forget, my site also has checklists for all card sets in my collection. I have also been meaning to put together a gallery of both signature cards and match worn gear for quite some time and have only held back due to limited diskspace. However, I have recently migrated my site to another webhost and this is no longer an issue. Will put up a link in the next day or so when I've completed this task.
The only signature card you MAY have missed is the Allan Border Buttercup card which is from the early 1990's.
All Done! If anyone has an image of the Bradman 1993 gold seal signature card, that would be handy to add to the gallery. Don't think I've missed any signature cards. Let me know if you find something missing please.