I Got A Couple Of Questions

[xexus]

1. Does anyone know anything about this card? I found it while looking through some of my cards.

Front:
http://s499.photobucket.com/albums/r...t=scan0005.jpg

Back:
http://s499.photobucket.com/albums/r...t=scan0006.jpg

2. Does anyone know anything about this card or set or brand? Again, I found it while looking through my cards.

Front:
http://s499.photobucket.com/albums/r...t=scan0007.jpg

Back:
http://s499.photobucket.com/albums/r...t=scan0008.jpg

3. Are phone cards like this worth collecting? I saw on the back it's serial #'ed.

Front:
http://s499.photobucket.com/albums/r...t=scan0009.jpg

Back:
http://s499.photobucket.com/albums/r...t=scan0010.jpg

and 4. Are these 23kt gold plated Pokemon cards even worth anything? The Ebay BIN's for these seemed to be cheap.

Front:http://s499.photobucket.com/albums/r...t=scan0011.jpg

Back:
http://s499.photobucket.com/albums/r...t=scan0012.jpg

Let me know!
Thank You!

[nadeau01_johnson48]

1. Looks like a card that he had made himself, and probably distributed them signed. Possibly either IP, or TTM?

2. No clue, looks like it might have been a parallel insert set?

3. Not really worth collecting, they don't book for anything.

4. I can't imagine that it'd be worth much.....but maybe to a Pokemon collector, it would be.

[Djarum]

Okay lets start in numerical order.

#1 ---- That is a personal card made for and by Chad Curtis of then Detroit Tigers. If you had sent for an autograph request to chad he had sent one of these along with what you wanted to get signed. I myself have one also. I received mine from him in 1998. Nice card of Chad and according to him less than 200 of them were printed up and signed.

#2 ---- The company tht made that card was called Ted Williams Football. Ted tried to make it in the big time by having his own card company. Rather than having a spectacular baseball carrer. His card company flopped. You can find these cards in the common bins. Some autos came from these packs but still to this day they do not garner much attention or $$.

#3 ---- Ahhh the phone card craze of the 1990's. It sounded like a good idea back then. I state... sounded good. Never panned over well with collectors. Nice little conversation pieces none the less.

#4 ---- Pokemon... ugh !! Over printed, over played, dead ! May be a collectors item 20-30 years from now, other than that, see if you can sell the card for scrap gold !!!

Dale