The 2004 Fleer Greats of the Game – Cut Signature Edition – Part 3 – the “Forever” subset

If you like memorabilia, then you’ll love the Forever subset.  You’ve struck swatch and patch gold!

The Forever subset is a memorabilia-rich subset filled with game-worn uniform swatches as well as patch cards. The Forever subset begins with 29 base cards with no memorabilia added. From this base, there are single patch cards and dual patch cards. There are cards with a cut team logo opening for the swatch or patch as well as a cut uniform number opening for a swatch or patch. There are also just plain square openings for game-worn jersey pieces (but no patches are included here!).

From by best research, here is how the Forever subset shakes out with regard to variations and production quantities. Take a deep breath, here we go! There are 29 base cards; 23 of them carry a game-worn jersey swatch (exclude Zach Wheat, Duke Snider, Gabby Hartnet, Hack Wilson, Pepper Martin and Frankie Frisch); These same 23 remaining base cards also come with a game-worn jersey logo cut and game-worn number cut jersey swatch as well as a game-worn logo cut and game-worn number cut jersey patch variation. Production runs on this group runs from 149 (game-worn logo cut) to 99 (game-worn number cut) to 49 (game-worn logo patch) and 25 for the game-worn number patch.

As I mentioned during the introduction of the Forever subset, there are also dual-patch logo cut and dual-patch number cut cards where there are two stars (one-front and one-back) each with a game-worn patch. Two players – two patches – one card; how wonderful. There are 11 cards featuring the dual-patch logo cuts and 10 that feature the dual-patch number cut. The dual-patch logo cards have a production run of 19 and the dual-patch number cards were produced in a quantity of five (5).

 

 

Clear as mud, right? The Forever subset with all of its variations adds 165 cards to our total, fattening our set to 417 cards.

Saving the best for last, we will explore the Personality Cuts with the next post. Until then, Happy Memorial Day to all.  Enjoy friends and family and your hobby.