| Garbage Pail Kids Uncut Sheets |
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There
have been many Garbage Pail Kids uncut card sheets offered for sale on
the Internet. Unfortunately, there are many uncut sheets from the
United States Garbage Pail Kids 2nd Series
and United States Garbage Pail Kids 3rd
Series that are bootlegs. Most uncut Garbage Pail Kids card
sheets started out as double-sheets with 264 cards on them. The
uncut sheets were cut down to 132 cards, which is how most of the uncut
sheets are found. The original United States Garbage Pail Kids
16th Series separation sheet (as described in the
United States Garbage Pail Kids
All-New Series 1 section on page 4) only had 44 cards on it because
the series was in the test phase of being printed. Uncut sheets
with anything less than 132 cards on them are usually fakes or
bootlegs. Uncut sheets from the original Garbage Pail Kids series
were not usually sold to the public, so many of the uncut sheets from
the original Garbage Pail Kids series currently offered for sale were
smuggled out of the factory or were taken from the dumpsters at
Topps. Topps had auctioned a small amount of the uncut sheets on
eBay.
Uncut sheets have distinctive markings
printed on them. The section of the United
States Garbage Pail Kids 5th Series uncut sheet shown above has
"Board 1 - © 1986 Topps Chewing Gum, Inc. 4-490-05-03-6 -
Slit A" printed on the border. Any uncut sheets without
similar information are either bootlegs, fakes, or trimmed.
The thumbnail image on the right is of an
article discussing the seizure of a large quantity of bootleg
United States Garbage Pail Kids 2nd Series uncut sheets in New
York. You can click on the thumbnail image to view the entire
article. A few types of bootleg and fake uncut sheets are
discussed below. |
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| 2nd Series Copied Sheets |
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| Category: |
Bootleg |
| Uniqueness: |
Low production |
| Collectability: |
Low interest |
| Value: |
$10-$20 per uncut sheet |
| Description: |
This
item is a bootleg, uncut sheet from the United
States Garbage Pail Kids 2nd Series, and these uncut sheets were
most likely the ones described in the article above on uncut sheet
seizures. There are 50 cards on the uncut sheet. The
die-cuts are printed onto the uncut sheet and also punched out.
The problems with the die-cuts can be seen in the picture above.
The borders of the cards are different colors than the rest of the
uncut sheet because the color differences were printed onto the uncut
sheet. The borders on an authentic uncut sheet are the same
color as the rest of the uncut sheet. The uncut sheet does not
have any of the markings that an authentic Garbage Pail Kids uncut
sheet would have. |
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| 3rd Series Copied Sheets |
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| Category: |
Bootleg |
| Uniqueness: |
Low production |
| Collectability: |
Low interest |
| Value: |
$10-$20 per uncut sheet / $0.00-$0.05 per card cut from sheet |
| Description: |
This
item is a bootleg, uncut sheet from the United
States Garbage Pail Kids 3rd Series. There are 42 cards on
the uncut sheet. Some of the cards from the bootleg uncut sheet
do not have the correct card backs when compared with the authentic
United States Garbage Pail Kids 3rd Series cards.
The picture on the right is of a card
that was cut from the bootleg, uncut sheet. The edges on the
card were not cut straight. The card shown is 86a Horsey
Henry. The authentic version of this card has a checklist on the
back, but the bootleg version has "Wanted For Hoarding" on
the back.
The print quality of the uncut sheet is
very poor. The colors are slightly faded, the card images are
slightly blurred, and the colors look dithered. The uncut sheet
does not have any of the markings that an authentic Garbage Pail Kids
uncut sheet would have. The die-cuts are printed onto the uncut
sheet and also punched out. The puzzle on the back of the uncut
sheet has lines printed on it, but an authentic uncut sheet does not
have any lines printed on it for dividing up the cards. |
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| Made In Taiwan Sheets |
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| Category: |
Bootleg |
| Uniqueness: |
Low production |
| Collectability: |
Low interest |
| Value: |
$5-$10 per uncut sheet |
| Description: |
These
items are bootleg, uncut sheets from the United
States Garbage Pail Kids 2nd Series and the
United States Garbage Pail Kids 3rd
Series. There are 50 stickers on the United States Garbage
Pail Kids 2nd Series uncut sheet, and there are 44 stickers on the
United States Garbage Pail Kids 3rd Series uncut sheet.
The United States Garbage Pail Kids 2nd Series uncut sheet measures
approximately 18-1/4" x 25-3/8". The person that
designed the bootleg United States Garbage Pail Kids 2nd Series uncut
sheet stuck sticker fronts from the United States Garbage Pail Kids
2nd Series cards onto a large piece of paper. The large piece
of paper was then copied to make the bootleg, uncut sheets. The
bootleg, uncut sheet from the United States Garbage Pail Kids 3rd
Series was probably designed in a similar way as the United States
Garbage Pail Kids 2nd Series bootleg, uncut sheet. Many of the
stickers on the United States Garbage Pail Kids 2nd Series uncut sheet
were torn, separated, or damaged when they were transferred onto the
large piece of paper, and these flaws can be seen on the sample image
on the left. The center portions of the United States Garbage
Pail Kids 2nd Series stickers for 76b Pourin' Lauren and 77b Acne Amy
were pulled and slightly torn when being transferred over. The
final product does not have any separations or tears on it, but the
tears were printed onto it. The uncut sheets are thin,
yellow-backed, sticker paper. The die-cuts are printed onto the
uncut sheets and also punched out. The color quality of the uncut
sheets is very poor. The uncut sheets have "Made in Taiwan
R.O.C." printed at the bottom, and there are 5 evenly spaced
unpunched punch holes at the top of the uncut sheets. The image
on the right is of the bootleg, uncut sheet from the United States
Garbage Pail Kids 3rd Series. |
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| Trimmed Sheets |
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| Category: |
Fake |
| Uniqueness: |
Very few known |
| Collectability: |
Low interest |
| Value: |
$5-$25 per uncut sheet |
| Description: |
This
item is of a United States Garbage Pail Kids 2nd
Series uncut sheet that was trimmed down to 44 cards. This
section was cut off of an authentic, uncut sheet from the Untied States
Garbage Pail Kids 2nd Series. By cutting up a sheet of 132 cards,
a seller can sell three sheets of 44 and could potentially make three
times the profit. The border on the uncut sheet is very thin and
has no markings because it was trimmed down. It is possible that
the sheet was cut like this at the factory, but a full uncut sheet from
the original United States Garbage Pail Kids series should have at
least 132 cards. The item was listed as a fake because it is not
a full, uncut sheet of at least 132 cards. However, it was cut
from an authentic, full sheet of 132. |
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