Sourcing and supplying jerseys for cards.

[fastnbulbous]

I am fairly new back to collecting (and mainly getting 90s stuff anyway), but after seeing some of the new(er) National Treasures product i got to wonder about how they source all these jersey and patches for player cards.

Firstly, i assume that all products are actually using player worn jerseys. If that is so, i wonder when they'll run out of some retired players?
Does someone maintain a cache of all these retired players jerseys? I wonder how they can source them.

Then i wonder how many jerseys are actually required to make a set of cards. Most NBA players are pretty big, so i imagine patch cards which are usually numbered to about 25 is roughly how many patches they can get out of one jersey. And then a number of jersey pieces can be used on the higher numbered cards.

Of course Oliver Miller would be less valuable as it could be numbered to 1000!

I am not sure if this topic has been discussed much, but the large and jumbo patches on some of the newer cards made me wonder about the sustainability (in particular for retired players)

 

[fastnbulbous]

Actually i made the effort to just google this and found this video:
How'd They Do That: Panini America Makes a Pete Maravich Game-Worn Jersey Card

Quite interesting actually, it is a lot more hands on that i would've thought. How they are handling those cards at the end looks a bit rough as well!

The Maravich is numbered to 10 as well. They seemed to make more than that, i guess for backups if one is damaged?

 

[GeorgC]

Actually i made the effort to just google this and found this video:
How'd They Do That: Panini America Makes a Pete Maravich Game-Worn Jersey Card

Quite interesting actually, it is a lot more hands on that i would've thought. How they are handling those cards at the end looks a bit rough as well!

Nice share

 

[Verse1]

I guess they get them from places like Grey Flannel.
http://catalog.greyflannelauctions.com/Category/Game-Used___Game-Worn-33.html

I know Panini have used 3 sperate Payton jerseys so far. They had a Lakers jersey when they first started making NBA and they've also been using a mid 90s green Champion jersey (which his 12-13 Totally Certified patches and 10-11 NT collosal have come from) and an early 00s Adidas jersey (Silhouettes and other patches from Timeless Treasures etc) were made from

 

[fastnbulbous]

I guess they get them from places like Grey Flannel.
http://catalog.greyflannelauctions.com/Category/Game-Used___Game-Worn-33.html

Nice, i had never heard of this site before.

 

[GeorgC]

I guess they get them from places like Grey Flannel.
http://catalog.greyflannelauctions.com/Category/Game-Used___Game-Worn-33.html

I know Panini have used 3 sperate Payton jerseys so far. They had a Lakers jersey when they first started making NBA and they've also been using a mid 90s green Champion jersey (which his 12-13 Totally Certified patches and 10-11 NT collosal have come from) and an early 00s Adidas jersey (Silhouettes and other patches from Timeless Treasures etc) were made from

It's not good to hear that, uh?

 

[muzikandme]

Yeah I think for retired players they would generally use grey flannel or other reputable sources you would hope, like old equipment managers and super collectors who are known to have authentic game worn jerseys. For newer players they get their jerseys thought the nba and meigrey.