1995 Action Packed #40G Bill Russell Autographed Card #D/100 Signed Photo Jersey

Description: 1995 Action Packed #40G Bill Russell Autographed Card #D/100 Signed Photo Jersey Looking for that next big thing to add to your man cave? Well, this is it! 1995 Action Packed Basketball Hall of Fame Autographs Bill Russell Card #40G! This is an incredible card to own. Please read the entire description including 3 paragraphs down about this exact card of Bill Russell and why it is a treasure of a card!In May 2020, in Las Vegas, NV (where we are based), we came across a storage locker full of memorabilia and in this locker were two boxes of cards. Upon opening the locker we found over 450 cards from the 1995 Action Packed Basketball set. All cards were hand signed and by 23 different players & coaches including Bill Russell, Bill Walton, Bob Cousy, Dean Smith, Hal Greer, Connie Hawkins, Dolph Schayes, Nate Thurmond, Jerry Lucas, Walt Bellamy, Bill Bradley, Calvin Murphy, Frank Ramsey, Carol Blazejowski, Nate Archibald & way more! In addition, these cards came with Certificates of Authenticity from Action Packed and every card had their own paper in the boxes. WHAT WE FIGURED OUT THAT WE FOUND .... was not just boxes of Action Packed cards that were signed and these boxes were not from a collector after doing more research and turns out these boxes were the actual redemption boxes from Action Packed!! When redemptions were pulled in the packs way back in 1995, Action Packed later sent collectors the real signed cards when the collectors mailed the redemptions in for the real final signed cards that were mentioned on the redemptions. This found treasure is the redemption fulfillment cards from the trading card packs and for whatever reason they were either unredeemed by collectors or the redemptions expired in the packs or they had extra cards signed by the players and coaches or just a combination of all of these reasons. After doing research, we found that the Bill Russell card is the set's most expensive card out of the 40 cards in the checklist. At the time, Russell was one of the toughest if not the toughest autograph to acquire of all current and former NBA players in 1995. THIS CARD TURNS OUT THAT IT IS ALSO THE VERY FIRST AUTOGRAPH TRADING CARD OF BILL RUSSELL EVER IN HIS CAREER, ANY SET, ANY TRADING CARD COMPANY...EVER!!! According to the checklist of the set through Beckett Price Guide, only the Russell card was actually limited edition out of 500 signed where every card was hand numbered. When we found these cards in this storage unit, we kept looking for the Russell's limited edition out of 100. BUT TO NO AVAIL. We came up short and looked everywhere online. What we found is this. THIS PARTICULAR CARD LIMITED EDITION OUT OF 100 IS THE GOLD VERSION OF CARD #40 WHICH IS WHY IT'S CARD #40G AND WAS NEVER RELEASED TO THE PUBLIC....ANYWHERE!! How do we know? Well inside the boxes in the storage locker were 93 of the 100 cards that were limited edition out of 100 and there has never been one sold online! We found this to be the case after researching extensive historical auction data we get from a historical sales software research partner of eBay and hundreds of other auction houses! Here is another thing, after looking through Beckett and similar trading card price guides, we found that the 100 was never listed, and they only have the Bill Russell autograph card out of 500 listed because they too since 1995 have never seen one obviously..... it would have been listed if they did!! If you go look at the autographed version of this card limited edition out of 500 which was the only card released to the masses, you will see this card has a different design as it is the 24K Gold version of card #40. This Russell card as well as the Bill Bradley (Card #37G), Bill Walton (Card #38G) and Bob Cousy (Card #39G), no one knew existed (until they were found by us) as whatever plans Action Packed had for these particular cards we don't know, but they ended up in a storage locker in Vegas somehow after Action Packed went out of business! We have all 4 of the never released Gold versions of the cards of Russell, Walton, Cousy and Bill Bradley and when we found them all, there were about 95 or so of each card. So even though the Russell is hand numbered out of 100 it appears all the Gold cards are out of 100 and not just the handwritten Russell one (since we found about 95 of each of them and no others have ever been on the market). Because Russell has the only hand numbered one, it is most likely Bill hand wrote this on the card to show he was only signing these contractually agreed upon amount and that was all especially since he was the most NBA autograph to get at the time. It appears the hand writing of the numbering on his cards is also in his handwriting as well. Contact us today or check our online store for the 4 gold versions of this set as you won't find them anywhere else! This 1995 Action Packed Basketball set is a treasure in its own as this was the only year these autographed Hall of Fame set cards were made for Basketball by Action Packed. They are a very early pioneer set of trading cards that included actual hand signed autographs on the cards! They did not do many hand signed trading cards back before this set from other trading card manufactures and from the other sports. To this day, collectors still collect these cards because the style and way the cards were designed as well as being an early on card auto set. They are a thicker card in nature and have a lot of different grooves and dimension on the cards as many parts on the card are raised above the base of the card. After conducting further research amongst collectors groups, here is an easy way to know how these autographs were authentic directly from Action Packed and not added on in the aftermarket. In regard to the base cards in the set, all of them have facsimile signatures on the cards of the person depicted on the card, not true hand signed autographs. The actual true hand signed authentic cards from the set do not have any facsimile signatures on the cards so that the only autographs exposed on the card are the authentic hand signed ones directly from Action Packed which is what we have here pictured in this listing, no facsimile signature on this card. We are not sure why these cards were never released or what the plan was of Action Packed with this limited edition Russell autographs out of only 100, but we are here to finally let the world see this card in its glory. Very rarely play cards never get released from the manufacturer so this is a very cool card to own and only 100 exist. As we start getting lower in inventory of this card we will be increasing the price of this card so make sure you get it ASAP before there is a price adjustment, and we will not be able to honor any pricing from before when it was lower. AUTOGRAPH AUTHENTICITY: To guarantee the signature is authentic, this item has been certified authentic by one of the most reputable and recognized authenticators in the business today, Beckett Authentication Services (BAS). This item has been encapsulated by Beckett to protect it from negative environmental factors and to give it a permanent case that also has the information about authenticity of this exact card guaranteeing this is the real thing. You can verify this certificate and the item's authenticity by heading to their online database, entering this item's authentication number as shown on the metal portion of the Beckett capsule which is available 24/7/365! Note: This is a stock item and stock images are used in this listing. The exact item you will receive will be of equal quality to the one pictured. Autograph quality, size and location will vary. You will receive a random limited edition number in the 100 card autograph set. Inscriptagraphs is the best and most trusted unique sports memorabilia online shop on the Internet. We sell exclusive hand signed & certified authentic sports & entertainment collectibles of your favorite superstar athletes and Hall of Famers to your favorite actors, musicans, inventors, politicans and more! If you are in the market for sports & entertainment memorabilia, we have you covered with our authenticity guarantees for autographed memorabilia and game used collectibles. We ship guaranteed authentic memorabilia and autographs worldwide to countries around the world and even offer at time, free shipping around the continental USA. We look forward to hopefully working with you soon so you can see what we are all about and why customers continue to come back all the time to buy from the best!OUR PRODUCTS HAVE BEEN FEATURED INEXCLUSIVE CLIENTSShippingPaymentAuthenticationStock ImagesCustom FramingQualityCustomer ServiceShippingPaymentAuthenticationStock ImagesCustom FramingQualityCustomer Service As part of our Deck Your Halls Holiday Extravaganza Sale, we are currently offering FREE Shipping on all domestic USA shipments and 15% off all items! In addition, we ship all over the world through the eBay Global Shipping program so whether you live in Canada, UK, Australia, France, Italy or anywhere else in the world, we can ship this item to you! Please Note: We care about the items we deliver to you! We have invested substantially into our shipping materials to ensure your item arrives to you, the way we would want an item delivered to us! Your item is packaged very well, and you can see our commitment to you reflected in our feedback! So you are aware: shipping frames to P.O. Boxes requires an additional fee in addition to any free shipping you may receive advertised. When you make offers, we are unable to see any types of addresses you make your offer with and cannot determine if we are shipping to a PO Box or not in advance of potentially accepting your offer. It is very important that you please inquire with us in advance of your purchase, so we can determine what the charge will be if you are choosing a P.O. Box as your shipping address. Shipping any frames to Alaska, Hawaii, US Territories or AFO/APO addresses require an additional fee in addition to what you see advertised. We reserve the right to add additional costs for shipping for any free shipments for any item you purchase. Payments for transactions is made through eBay's brand new managed payments program: Methods of payment currently accepted are debit/credit cards, Apple Pay, Paypal, Google Pay & Gift Cards. Please pay as soon as possible after winning an item, as that will allow us to ship your item to you sooner! If items are not paid within 48 hours of winning this item, we reserve the right to open an unpaid item case against you until the item is paid. Please do not take offense to this. This policy is in effect due to many people purchasing items but not paying for them, so we have to institute this policy to keep it fair for the people that want to buy products. We work with the most reputable suppliers in the industry who have direct contracts with athletes & celebrities. Most items are acquired via private paid autograph signings with the athletes/celebrities to ensure the signatures are the real thing. We work with some of the most advanced authentication companies in the industry today including PSA/DNA, James Spence Authentication (JSA), Beckett Authentication Services (BAS), Fanatics Authentic, Upper Deck, Steiner, Tristar and much more. All worn and game used equipment has paperwork directly from the teams, players, movie studios, estates, and celebrities themselves! Indeed, acquiring your favorite piece of autographed memorabilia can be one of the most exciting investments you can make – as long as it is real. At Inscriptagraphs.com, the integrity of each piece of hand-signed collectibles is paramount. Inscriptagraphs.com guarantees the authenticity of your hand-signed sports collectible or your money back! Many of the items that we have multiple quantities of and many of the photos we use in our listings are stock images. You may receive an item that is autographed that may have the autograph in a different location or the quality could change slightly. For all other types of items, you will receive an item in a similar condition to the one pictured in the listing. Exact picture frame design styles also sometimes vary based on current supplies we have in stock but you will receive the same base color as what is pictured in stock photos. For example if you see the main color of the frame as being gold, then you will recieve a gold frame but the style of picture frame mould may vary off what is seen in the stock photo. For items that are unframed and you are interested in having your items professionally custom framed, please let us know in advance! We are one of the largest manufacturers of custom framed products in the sports & entertainment memorabilia industry! We can customize an item to your exact specifications and design custom items from your requests! The best part of it all is we will frame your item then ship your newly designed piece to you with the item you purchase from all in one!! Message us to inquire today! At Inscriptagraphs Sports & Entertainment Memorabilia, quality is one of the founding principles of our company. All of our products come from the absolute best of the best sources from cases to the actual collectibles to framing and authentication. Quality is what we stand for. The signed and unsigned collectibles that we offer are manufactured with the best materials and the framing we provide with our products are state-of-the-art museum quality framing. The equipment we use, the average mom & pop shop and large retail competitors can't afford as the machinery we use is the utmost high end in the framing industry. This equipment is very expensive to purchase & maintain, but we are committed to giving our customers the quality they seek and rarely find. The cases we provide are all made of plexiglass which is more expensive than glass and if your case fell off your desk, for example, the plexiglass won't shatter like normal glass. There's an old expression: "You Get What You Pay For", we make sure you are provided with the industry-leading quality and are proud to set the bar for quality among memorabilia companies. The authenticity you are provided with for your collectibles is the most advanced expert authentication in the industry. We outsource all of our authentication (except for witnessed signings we directly conduct with athletes & celebrities) to ensure that a third party expert authentication service providing you with their opinion and not us, giving you a bias opinion. You have come to the right place if you are in the market for memorabilia collectibles as you will be provided the utmost quality for your collection! If you have a question about an item or service that we provide, feel free to reach out to us via the "Contact Seller" button in the "Seller Information" area towards the top of this listing. We are open every day from 10am - 5pm PST and here to help you. We will respond back to all your questions as soon as possible. See our other itemsLooking for that next big thing to add to your man cave? Well, this is it! 1995 Action Packed Basketball Hall of Fame Autographs Bill Russell Card #40G! This is an incredible card to own. Please read the entire description including 3 paragraphs down about this exact card of Bill Russell and why it is a treasure of a card! In May 2020, in Las Vegas, NV (where we are based), we came across a storage locker full of memorabilia and in this locker were two boxes of cards. Upon opening the locker we found over 450 cards from the 1995 Action Packed Basketball set. All cards were hand signed and by 23 different players & coaches including Bill Russell, Bill Walton, Bob Cousy, Dean Smith, Hal Greer, Connie Hawkins, Dolph Schayes, Nate Thurmond, Jerry Lucas, Walt Bellamy, Bill Bradley, Calvin Murphy, Frank Ramsey, Carol Blazejowski, Nate Archibald & way more! In addition, these cards came with Certificates of Authenticity from Action Packed and every card had their own paper in the boxes. WHAT WE FIGURED OUT THAT WE FOUND .... was not just boxes of Action Packed cards that were signed and these boxes were not from a collector after doing more research and turns out these boxes were the actual redemption boxes from Action Packed!! When redemptions were pulled in the packs way back in 1995, Action Packed later sent collectors the real signed cards when the collectors mailed the redemptions in for the real final signed cards that were mentioned on the redemptions. This found treasure is the redemption fulfillment cards from the trading card packs and for whatever reason they were either unredeemed by collectors or the redemptions expired in the packs or they had extra cards signed by the players and coaches or just a combination of all of these reasons. After doing research, we found that the Bill Russell card is the set's most expensive card out of the 40 cards in the checklist. At the time, Russell was one of the toughest if not the toughest autograph to acquire of all current and former NBA players in 1995. THIS CARD TURNS OUT THAT IT IS ALSO THE VERY FIRST AUTOGRAPH TRADING CARD OF BILL RUSSELL EVER IN HIS CAREER, ANY SET, ANY TRADING CARD COMPANY...EVER!!! According to the checklist of the set through Beckett Price Guide, only the Russell card was actually limited edition out of 500 signed where every card was hand numbered. When we found these cards in this storage unit, we kept looking for the Russell's limited edition out of 100. BUT TO NO AVAIL. We came up short and looked everywhere online. What we found is this. THIS PARTICULAR CARD LIMITED EDITION OUT OF 100 IS THE GOLD VERSION OF CARD #40 WHICH IS WHY IT'S CARD #40G AND WAS NEVER RELEASED TO THE PUBLIC....ANYWHERE!! How do we know? Well inside the boxes in the storage locker were 93 of the 100 cards that were limited edition out of 100 and there has never been one sold online! We found this to be the case after researching extensive historical auction data we get from a historical sales software research partner of eBay and hundreds of other auction houses! Here is another thing, after looking through Beckett and similar trading card price guides, we found that the 100 was never listed, and they only have the Bill Russell autograph card out of 500 listed because they too since 1995 have never seen one obviously..... it would have been listed if they did!! If you go look at the autographed version of this card limited edition out of 500 which was the only card released to the masses, you will see this card has a different design as it is the 24K Gold version of card #40. This Russell card as well as the Bill Bradley (Card #37G), Bill Walton (Card #38G) and Bob Cousy (Card #39G), no one knew existed (until they were found by us) as whatever plans Action Packed had for these particular cards we don't know, but they ended up in a storage locker in Vegas somehow after Action Packed went out of business! We have all 4 of the never released Gold versions of the cards of Russell, Walton, Cousy and Bill Bradley and when we found them all, there were about 95 or so of each card. So even though the Russell is hand numbered out of 100 it appears all the Gold cards are out of 100 and not just the handwritten Russell one (since we found about 95 of each of them and no others have ever been on the market). Because Russell has the only hand numbered one, it is most likely Bill hand wrote this on the card to show he was only signing these contractually agreed upon amount and that was all especially since he was the most NBA autograph to get at the time. It appears the hand writing of the numbering on his cards is also in his handwriting as well. Contact us today or check our online store for the 4 gold versions of this set as you won't find them anywhere else! This 1995 Action Packed Basketball set is a treasure in its own as this was the only year these autographed Hall of Fame set cards were made for Basketball by Action Packed. They are a very early pioneer set of trading cards that included actual hand signed autographs on the cards! They did not do many hand signed trading cards back before this set from other trading card manufactures and from the other sports. To this day, collectors still collect these cards because the style and way the cards were designed as well as being an early on card auto set. They are a thicker card in nature and have a lot of different grooves and dimension on the cards as many parts on the card are raised above the base of the card. After conducting further research amongst collectors groups, here is an easy way to know how these autographs were authentic directly from Action Packed and not added on in the aftermarket. In regard to the base cards in the set, all of them have facsimile signatures on the cards of the person depicted on the card, not true hand signed autographs. The actual true hand signed authentic cards from the set do not have any facsimile signatures on the cards so that the only autographs exposed on the card are the authentic hand signed ones directly from Action Packed which is what we have here pictured in this listing, no facsimile signature on this card. We are not sure why these cards were never released or what the plan was of Action Packed with this limited edition Russell autographs out of only 100, but we are here to finally let the world see this card in its glory. Very rarely play cards never get released from the manufacturer so this is a very cool card to own and only 100 exist. As we start getting lower in inventory of this card we will be increasing the price of this card so make sure you get it ASAP before there is a price adjustment, and we will not be able to honor any pricing from before when it was lower. AUTOGRAPH AUTHENTICITY: To guarantee the signature is authentic, this item has been certified authentic by one of the most reputable and recognized authenticators in the business today, Beckett Authentication Services (BAS). This item has been encapsulated by Beckett to protect it from negative environmental factors and to give it a permanent case that also has the information about authenticity of this exact card guaranteeing this is the real thing. You can verify this certificate and the item's authenticity by heading to their online database, entering this item's authentication number as shown on the metal portion of the Beckett capsule which is available 24/7/365! Note: This is a stock item and stock images are used in this listing. The exact item you will receive will be of equal quality to the one pictured. Autograph quality, size and location will vary. You will receive a random limited edition number in the 100 card autograph set. 1995 Action Packed #40G Bill Russell Autographed Card #D/100 Signed Photo Jersey Looking for that next big thing to add to your man cave? Well, this is it! 1995 Action Packed Basketball Hall of Fame Autographs Bill Russell Card #40G! This is an incredible card to own. Please read the entire description including 3 paragraphs down about this exact card of Bill Russell and why it is a treasure of a card!In May 2020, in Las Vegas, NV (where we are based), we came across a storage locker full of memorabilia and in this locker were two boxes of cards. Upon opening the locker we found over 450 cards from the 1995 Action Packed Basketball set. All cards were hand signed and by 23 different players & coaches including Bill Russell, Bill Walton, Bob Cousy, Dean Smith, Hal Greer, Connie Hawkins, Dolph Schayes, Nate Thurmond, Jerry Lucas, Walt Bellamy, Bill Bradley, Calvin Murphy, Frank Ramsey, Carol Blazejowski, Nate Archibald & way more! In addition, these cards came with Certificates of Authenticity from Action Packed and every card had their own paper in the boxes. WHAT WE FIGURED OUT THAT WE FOUND .... was not just boxes of Action Packed cards that were signed and these boxes were not from a collector after doing more research and turns out these boxes were the actual redemption boxes from Action Packed!! When redemptions were pulled in the packs way back in 1995, Action Packed later sent collectors the real signed cards when the collectors mailed the redemptions in for the real final signed cards that were mentioned on the redemptions. This found treasure is the redemption fulfillment cards from the trading card packs and for whatever reason they were either unredeemed by collectors or the redemptions expired in the packs or they had extra cards signed by the players and coaches or just a combination of all of these reasons. After doing research, we found that the Bill Russell card is the set's most expensive card out of the 40 cards in the checklist. At the time, Russell was one of the toughest if not the toughest autograph to acquire of all current and former NBA players in 1995. THIS CARD TURNS OUT THAT IT IS ALSO THE VERY FIRST AUTOGRAPH TRADING CARD OF BILL RUSSELL EVER IN HIS CAREER, ANY SET, ANY TRADING CARD COMPANY...EVER!!! According to the checklist of the set through Beckett Price Guide, only the Russell card was actually limited edition out of 500 signed where every card was hand numbered. When we found these cards in this storage unit, we kept looking for the Russell's limited edition out of 100. BUT TO NO AVAIL. We came up short and looked everywhere online. What we found is this. THIS PARTICULAR CARD LIMITED EDITION OUT OF 100 IS THE GOLD VERSION OF CARD #40 WHICH IS WHY IT'S CARD #40G AND WAS NEVER RELEASED TO THE PUBLIC....ANYWHERE!! How do we know? Well inside the boxes in the storage locker were 93 of the 100 cards that were limited edition out of 100 and there has never been one sold online! We found this to be the case after researching extensive historical auction data we get from a historical sales software research partner of eBay and hundreds of other auction houses! Here is another thing, after looking through Beckett and similar trading card price guides, we found that the 100 was never listed, and they only have the Bill Russell autograph card out of 500 listed because they too since 1995 have never seen one obviously..... it would have been listed if they did!! If you go look at the autographed version of this card limited edition out of 500 which was the only card released to the masses, you will see this card has a different design as it is the 24K Gold version of card #40. This Russell card as well as the Bill Bradley (Card #37G), Bill Walton (Card #38G) and Bob Cousy (Card #39G), no one knew existed (until they were found by us) as whatever plans Action Packed had for these particular cards we don't know, but they ended up in a storage locker in Vegas somehow after Action Packed went out of business! We have all 4 of the never released Gold versions of the cards of Russell, Walton, Cousy and Bill Bradley and when we found them all, there were about 95 or so of each card. So even though the Russell is hand numbered out of 100 it appears all the Gold cards are out of 100 and not just the handwritten Russell one (since we found about 95 of each of them and no others have ever been on the market). Because Russell has the only hand numbered one, it is most likely Bill hand wrote this on the card to show he was only signing these contractually agreed upon amount and that was all especially since he was the most NBA autograph to get at the time. It appears the hand writing of the numbering on his cards is also in his handwriting as well. Contact us today or check our online store for the 4 gold versions of this set as you won't find them anywhere else! This 1995 Action Packed Basketball set is a treasure in its own as this was the only year these autographed Hall of Fame set cards were made for Basketball by Action Packed. They are a very early pioneer set of trading cards that included actual hand signed autographs on the cards! They did not do many hand signed trading cards back before this set from other trading card manufactures and from the other sports. To this day, collectors still collect these cards because the style and way the cards were designed as well as being an early on card auto set. They are a thicker card in nature and have a lot of different grooves and dimension on the cards as many parts on the card are raised above the base of the card. After conducting further research amongst collectors groups, here is an easy way to know how these autographs were authentic directly from Action Packed and not added on in the aftermarket. In regard to the base cards in the set, all of them have facsimile signatures on the cards of the person depicted on the card, not true hand signed autographs. The actual true hand signed authentic cards from the set do not have any facsimile signatures on the cards so that the only autographs exposed on the card are the authentic hand signed ones directly from Action Packed which is what we have here pictured in this listing, no facsimile signature on this card. We are not sure why these cards were never released or what the plan was of Action Packed with this limited edition Russell autographs out of only 100, but we are here to finally let the world see this card in its glory. Very rarely play cards never get released from the manufacturer so this is a very cool card to own and only 100 exist. As we start getting lower in inventory of this card we will be increasing the price of this card so make sure you get it ASAP before there is a price adjustment, and we will not be able to honor any pricing from before when it was lower. AUTOGRAPH AUTHENTICITY: To guarantee the signature is authentic, this item has been certified authentic by one of the most reputable and recognized authenticators in the business today, Beckett Authentication Services (BAS). This item has been encapsulated by Beckett to protect it from negative environmental factors and to give it a permanent case that also has the information about authenticity of this exact card guaranteeing this is the real thing. You can verify this certificate and the item's authenticity by heading to their online database, entering this item's authentication number as shown on the metal portion of the Beckett capsule which is available 24/7/365! Note: This is a stock item and stock images are used in this listing. The exact item you will receive will be of equal quality to the one pictured. Autograph quality, size and location will vary. You will receive a random limited edition number in the 100 card autograph set. Inscriptagraphs is the best and most trusted unique sports memorabilia online shop on the Internet. We sell exclusive hand signed & certified authentic sports & entertainment collectibles of your favorite superstar athletes and Hall of Famers to your favorite actors, musicans, inventors, politicans and more! If you are in the market for sports & entertainment memorabilia, we have you covered with our authenticity guarantees for autographed memorabilia and game used collectibles. We ship guaranteed authentic memorabilia and autographs worldwide to countries around the world and even offer at time, free shipping around the continental USA. We look forward to hopefully working with you soon so you can see what we are all about and why customers continue to come back all the time to buy from the best!OUR PRODUCTS HAVE BEEN FEATURED INEXCLUSIVE CLIENTSShipping As part of our Deck Your Halls Holiday Extravaganza Sale, we are currently offering FREE Shipping on all domestic USA shipments and 15% off all items! In addition, we ship all over the world through the eBay Global Shipping program so whether you live in Canada, UK, Australia, France, Italy or anywhere else in the world, we can ship this item to you! Please Note: We care about the items we deliver to you! We have invested substantially into our shipping materials to ensure your item arrives to you, the way we would want an item delivered to us! Your item is packaged very well, and you can see our commitment to you reflected in our feedback! So you are aware: shipping frames to P.O. Boxes requires an additional fee in addition to any free shipping you may receive advertised. When you make offers, we are unable to see any types of addresses you make your offer with and cannot determine if we are shipping to a PO Box or not in advance of potentially accepting your offer. It is very important that you please inquire with us in advance of your purchase, so we can determine what the charge will be if you are choosing a P.O. Box as your shipping address. Shipping any frames to Alaska, Hawaii, US Territories or AFO/APO addresses require an additional fee in addition to what you see advertised. We reserve the right to add additional costs for shipping for any free shipments for any item you purchase.Payment Payments for transactions is made through eBay's brand new managed payments program: Methods of payment currently accepted are debit/credit cards, Apple Pay, Paypal, Google Pay & Gift Cards. Please pay as soon as possible after winning an item, as that will allow us to ship your item to you sooner! If items are not paid within 48 hours of winning this item, we reserve the right to open an unpaid item case against you until the item is paid. Please do not take offense to this. This policy is in effect due to many people purchasing items but not paying for them, so we have to institute this policy to keep it fair for the people that want to buy products.Authentication We work with the most reputable suppliers in the industry who have direct contracts with athletes & celebrities. Most items are acquired via private paid autograph signings with the athletes/celebrities to ensure the signatures are the real thing. We work with some of the most advanced authentication companies in the industry today including PSA/DNA, James Spence Authentication (JSA), Beckett Authentication Services (BAS), Fanatics Authentic, Upper Deck, Steiner, Tristar and much more. All worn and game used equipment has paperwork directly from the teams, players, movie studios, estates, and celebrities themselves! Indeed, acquiring your favorite piece of autographed memorabilia can be one of the most exciting investments you can make – as long as it is real. At Inscriptagraphs.com, the integrity of each piece of hand-signed collectibles is paramount. Inscriptagraphs.com guarantees the authenticity of your hand-signed sports collectible or your money back!Stock Images Many of the items that we have multiple quantities of and many of the photos we use in our listings are stock images. You may receive an item that is autographed that may have the autograph in a different location or the quality could change slightly. For all other types of items, you will receive an item in a similar condition to the one pictured in the listing. Exact picture frame design styles also sometimes vary based on current supplies we have in stock but you will receive the same base color as what is pictured in stock photos. For example if you see the main color of the frame as being gold, then you will recieve a gold frame but the style of picture frame mould may vary off what is seen in the stock photo.Custom Framing For items that are unframed and you are interested in having your items professionally custom framed, please let us know in advance! We are one of the largest manufacturers of custom framed products in the sports & entertainment memorabilia industry! We can customize an item to your exact specifications and design custom items from your requests! The best part of it all is we will frame your item then ship your newly designed piece to you with the item you purchase from all in one!! Message us to inquire today!Quality At Inscriptagraphs Sports & Entertainment Memorabilia, quality is one of the founding principles of our company. All of our products come from the absolute best of the best sources from cases to the actual collectibles to framing and authentication. Quality is what we stand for. The signed and unsigned collectibles that we offer are manufactured with the best materials and the framing we provide with our products are state-of-the-art museum quality framing. The equipment we use, the average mom & pop shop and large retail competitors can't afford as the machinery we use is the utmost high end in the framing industry. This equipment is very expensive to purchase & maintain, but we are committed to giving our customers the quality they seek and rarely find. The cases we provide are all made of plexiglass which is more expensive than glass and if your case fell off your desk, for example, the plexiglass won't shatter like normal glass. There's an old expression: "You Get What You Pay For", we make sure you are provided with the industry-leading quality and are proud to set the bar for quality among memorabilia companies. The authenticity you are provided with for your collectibles is the most advanced expert authentication in the industry. We outsource all of our authentication (except for witnessed signings we directly conduct with athletes & celebrities) to ensure that a third party expert authentication service providing you with their opinion and not us, giving you a bias opinion. You have come to the right place if you are in the market for memorabilia collectibles as you will be provided the utmost quality for your collection!Customer Service If you have a question about an item or service that we provide, feel free to reach out to us via the "Contact Seller" button in the "Seller Information" area towards the top of this listing. We are open every day from 10am - 5pm PST and here to help you. We will respond back to all your questions as soon as possible. See our other items Looking for that next big thing to add to your man cave? Well, this is it! 1995 Action Packed Basketball Hall of Fame Autographs Bill Russell Card #40G! This is an incredible card to own. Please read the entire description including 3 paragraphs down about this exact card of Bill Russell and why it is a treasure of a card!In May 2020, in Las Vegas, NV (where we are based), we came across a storage locker full of memorabilia and in this locker were two boxes of cards. Upon opening the locker we found over 450 cards from the 1995 Action Packed Basketball set. All cards were hand signed and by 23 different players & coaches including Bill Russell, Bill Walton, Bob Cousy, Dean Smith, Hal Greer, Connie Hawkins, Dolph Schayes, Nate Thurmond, Jerry Lucas, Walt Bellamy, Bill Bradley, Calvin Murphy, Frank Ramsey, Carol Blazejowski, Nate Archibald & way more! In addition, these cards came with Certificates of Authenticity from Action Packed and every card had their own paper in the boxes. WHAT WE FIGURED OUT THAT WE FOUND .... was not just boxes of Action Packed cards that were signed and these boxes were not from a collector after doing more research and turns out these boxes were the actual redemption boxes from Action Packed!! When redemptions were pulled in the packs way back in 1995, Action Packed later sent collectors the real signed cards when the collectors mailed the redemptions in for the real final signed cards that were mentioned on the redemptions. This found treasure is the redemption fulfillment cards from the trading card packs and for whatever reason they were either unredeemed by collectors or the redemptions expired in the packs or they had extra cards signed by the players and coaches or just a combination of all of these reasons. After doing research, we found that the Bill Russell card is the set's most expensive card out of the 40 cards in the checklist. At the time, Russell was one of the toughest if not the toughest autograph to acquire of all current and former NBA players in 1995. THIS CARD TURNS OUT THAT IT IS ALSO THE VERY FIRST AUTOGRAPH TRADING CARD OF BILL RUSSELL EVER IN HIS CAREER, ANY SET, ANY TRADING CARD COMPANY...EVER!!! According to the checklist of the set through Beckett Price Guide, only the Russell card was actually limited edition out of 500 signed where every card was hand numbered. When we found these cards in this storage unit, we kept looking for the Russell's limited edition out of 100. BUT TO NO AVAIL. We came up short and looked everywhere online. What we found is this. THIS PARTICULAR CARD LIMITED EDITION OUT OF 100 IS THE GOLD VERSION OF CARD #40 WHICH IS WHY IT'S CARD #40G AND WAS NEVER RELEASED TO THE PUBLIC....ANYWHERE!! How do we know? Well inside the boxes in the storage locker were 93 of the 100 cards that were limited edition out of 100 and there has never been one sold online! We found this to be the case after researching extensive historical auction data we get from a historical sales software research partner of eBay and hundreds of other auction houses! Here is another thing, after looking through Beckett and similar trading card price guides, we found that the 100 was never listed, and they only have the Bill Russell autograph card out of 500 listed because they too since 1995 have never seen one obviously..... it would have been listed if they did!! If you go look at the autographed version of this card limited edition out of 500 which was the only card released to the masses, you will see this card has a different design as it is the 24K Gold version of card #40. This Russell card as well as the Bill Bradley (Card #37G), Bill Walton (Card #38G) and Bob Cousy (Card #39G), no one knew existed (until they were found by us) as whatever plans Action Packed had for these particular cards we don't know, but they ended up in a storage locker in Vegas somehow after Action Packed went out of business! We have all 4 of the never released Gold versions of the cards of Russell, Walton, Cousy and Bill Bradley and when we found them all, there were about 95 or so of each card. So even though the Russell is hand numbered out of 100 it appears all the Gold cards are out of 100 and not just the handwritten Russell one (since we found about 95 of each of them and no others have ever been on the market). Because Russell has the only hand numbered one, it is most likely Bill hand wrote this on the card to show he was only signing these contractually agreed upon amount and that was all especially since he was the most NBA autograph to get at the time. It appears the hand writing of the numbering on his cards is also in his handwriting as well. Contact us today or check our online store for the 4 gold versions of this set as you won't find them anywhere else! This 1995 Action Packed Basketball set is a treasure in its own as this was the only year these autographed Hall of Fame set cards were made for Basketball by Action Packed. They are a very early pioneer set of trading cards that included actual hand signed autographs on the cards! They did not do many hand signed trading cards back before this set from other trading card manufactures and from the other sports. To this day, collectors still collect these cards because the style and way the cards were designed as well as being an early on card auto set. They are a thicker card in nature and have a lot of different grooves and dimension on the cards as many parts on the card are raised above the base of the card. After conducting further research amongst collectors groups, here is an easy way to know how these autographs were authentic directly from Action Packed and not added on in the aftermarket. In regard to the base cards in the set, all of them have facsimile signatures on the cards of the person depicted on the card, not true hand signed autographs. The actual true hand signed authentic cards from the set do not have any facsimile signatures on the cards so that the only autographs exposed on the card are the authentic hand signed ones directly from Action Packed which is what we have here pictured in this listing, no facsimile signature on this card. We are not sure why these cards were never released or what the plan was of Action Packed with this limited edition Russell autographs out of only 100, but we are here to finally let the world see this card in its glory. Very rarely play cards never get released from the manufacturer so this is a very cool card to own and only 100 exist. As we start getting lower in inventory of this card we will be increasing the price of this card so make sure you get it ASAP before there is a price adjustment, and we will not be able to honor any pricing from before when it was lower. AUTOGRAPH AUTHENTICITY: To guarantee the signature is authentic, this item has been certified authentic by one of the most reputable and recognized authenticators in the business today, Beckett Authentication Services (BAS). This item has been encapsulated by Beckett to protect it from negative environmental factors and to give it a permanent case that also has the information about authenticity of this exact card guaranteeing this is the real thing. You can verify this certificate and the item's authenticity by heading to their online database, entering this item's authentication number as shown on the metal portion of the Beckett capsule which is available 24/7/365! Note: This is a stock item and stock images are used in this listing. The exact item you will receive will be of equal quality to the one pictured. Autograph quality, size and location will vary. You will receive a random limited edition number in the 100 card autograph set.

Price: 2699.1 USD

Location: Las Vegas, Nevada

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