Diamond Kings Question

wufdude

I just busted two boxes and man, these are some confusing cards....I pulled a 3/5 Marty Marion Dual Jersey card and was looking on Ebay and found one similar but mine has a black frame around it whereas the one on Ebay was a 5/5 Dual Jersey with no frame?? So is mine more rare, less rare or just the same? And are there 5 w/ black frames, 5 without....

wufdude

I also pulled a Nolan Ryan Legends 012/100 with a gray border....I also saw a similar card on Ebay XX/100 that did not have the border? Any difference here?

WinPitcher

Sounds like these inserts have gotten out of hand..........grey border, no border, with cloth, w/o cloth...etc etc etc.........I have no idea how to answer your question. but could use the post....

CON40

I read in a thread a couple days ago that a Mussina collector has somehow already identified 87 different 1/1s from this set! Takes parallels to whole new dimension!

Waiter... one of ones for all my friends at the table!

helionaut

Donruss always had confusing parallels. Remember Fractal Matrix from 97 Leaf? This is less confusing to me, but just as annoying because they have so many almost identical cards whose main distinguishing characteristic is the serial numbering. There are borders of various colors numbered to different levels, and there are different types of GU cards with different borders numbered to different levels, and there are different GU/auto cards with different borders numbered to different levels. I like rare parallel sets, and was thinking about doing the black border #/25 set, but it got too frustrating sorting through cards that matched that search but without bats, jerseys, or autos on them. Plus I dedided I didn't care for the paintings.

There are something like 12 1/1 parallels of each card, the difference being one has a black border, one has a grey border with a jersey swatch, one has a cream border with an autograph, one has a grey border with a piece of a bat and an auto, etc. But I think of them as 1/12s, really. Remember Topps Tek had those 60 1/10 parallels, but they ended up getting treated like 1/600s because no one cared about the different backgrounds. These still sell well, but I don't think of them as "true" 1/1s.