UD SP Buyback Auto - Duplicates?

[Bure10]

Did Upper Deck have backups/duplicates of autographed cards?

The reason I ask is I saw this on Turco_cards' instagram page, posted on March 22. UD SP Buyback Pavel Bure #2/16






I also have an UD SP Buyback Pavel Bure auto #2/16:





I couldn't begin to tell you what year I bought mine. My ebay emails only go back to 2007 and this card didn't come up in the searching of them.

[creasecollector]

Probably just an employee hand-numbering error on their part. It's happened before.

It can also happen with machines when they serial number cards as well. It's not a big deal.

[mingus_md]

1999-00 SP Authentic Buyback Signatures #8 Pavel Bure 96SP Attribute(s): Att: AU, S# /16

Could it be the same card signed in two different years:

1999-00 SP Authentic Buyback Signatures #8 Pavel Bure 96SP Attribute(s): Att: AU, S# /16

2000-01 SP Authentic BuyBacks #39 Pavel Bure Attribute(s): Att: AU, S# /16

[Bure10]

You're probably right about it just being human error since it's handwritten. There were a few different Bure cards I used to track on ebay just to see if all of them had surfaced from packs, and this card was one of them. Your comment got me to dig through my old hard drive looking for the pictures I copied from ebay, blogs, photobuckets, etc. just to see if it happened with any other number. I (very poorly) tried to put them altogether in one picture. After seeing them this way, I find it kind of interesting that the numbering on some is larger and on the photo part of the card, while the others are smaller and on the border. Oh well, it was something to do while being stuck at home.

This is the collage I made from the pictures I saved. I know numbers 3/16 and 14/16 are out of the packs, as I made a note of the sellers on ebay, but I can't find the pictures of them.

[Bure10]

1999-00 SP Authentic Buyback Signatures #8 Pavel Bure 96SP Attribute(s): Att: AU, S# /16

Could it be the same card signed in two different years:

1999-00 SP Authentic Buyback Signatures #8 Pavel Bure 96SP Attribute(s): Att: AU, S# /16

2000-01 SP Authentic BuyBacks #39 Pavel Bure Attribute(s): Att: AU, S# /16

That very well could be. I didn't know they did two years of the buybacks #'ed to 16.

[creasecollector]

@mingus_md could be definitely onto something here. Having the same card as a BuyBack auto in multiple years makes sense as to why there would be two #2/16 copies of the same card. I think that's it.

The hand-written serial number placement could indicate what year these BuyBack autographed cards were released, since one serial number is written within Bure's action shot, while the other is located on the card border.

Great archive of images, too! Impressive!

[g-force]

Upper Deck has done buyback autos in a number of different products over the years. Off the top of my head, I believe 204-05 SPA plus two actual Buyback products. It's most likely these are from two different products. Why they would use a card they used previously, or even serial number to the same copies I don't get.

[Rraincock]

I suspect, as suggested above, that the cards numbered along the bottom are from a different set than those numbered by the picture. It would seem odd that UD would use different locations on a single run. I get that UD would hand number cards if they were replaced, but would this many of these be replaced? UD quality control needs to shake their heads.