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Up for sale is a 2010 Panini Timeless Treasures NBA Apprentice Materials Quads Prime memorabilia card of Devin Ebanks, Timofey Mozgov, Andy Rautins and Wesley Johnson, card number 15, hand numbered 08/10. Photographed here front and back exactly as you will receive it.
Serial numbered 08/10. The print run is stamped on the card itself: 08/10. Only ten copies of this card exist anywhere in the world. That is the number on this specific card, not a general description of the parallel — it is photographed and you can read it for yourself.
What the manufacturer certifies. The back of the card carries the manufacturer\'s own wording, quoted here exactly: “The enclosed event-worn swatches are guaranteed by Panini America, Inc.”
Event-worn, and I am going to say so plainly. The material in this card did not come out of a regular-season game. Panini\'s own wording, quoted above, certifies it as event-worn — jersey worn at a league event such as the rookie photo shoot, where the year\'s draft class is put in its new uniforms for the first time. That is genuine, certified, league-sanctioned material and it is exactly what the manufacturer says it is, but it is not game-worn, and plenty of sellers will let you assume otherwise. I would rather tell you up front.
What PRIME means. Manufacturers reserve the PRIME designation for swatches cut from the parts of a jersey collectors actually chase — seams, stitching, piping, numbering, multi-colour panels — rather than the plain single-colour body of the garment. The word is printed on the face of the card, and the photographs show exactly what is behind the window.
The look. Landscape. Four players stand shoulder to shoulder across a cream field patterned with fine gold damask, each named on the rust bar above him, each with his team labelled and his own prime swatch set into the panel below — four windows in a row, every one of them marked PRIME.
Devin Ebanks. Ebanks came out of West Virginia as the 43rd pick in 2010 and spent three seasons with the Lakers, appearing in 63 regular-season games and nine playoff games.
Timofey Mozgov. Mozgov came to the Knicks from Russia in 2010 and spent eight seasons in the league as a rotation centre. His best moment came in the 2015 Finals, where he averaged 14.0 a game and scored 28 in Game 4, and he won a championship with Cleveland the following year.
Andy Rautins. Rautins was a sharpshooting Syracuse guard whom the Knicks took 38th overall in 2010. His NBA career was brief — five games in 2010-11 — but he went on to a long professional run in Spain, Germany, Italy, Turkey and Greece, and was a fixture on the Canadian national team.
Wesley Johnson. Minnesota took Johnson fourth overall in 2010 out of Syracuse and he started 63 games as a rookie, averaging 9.0 points. He played nine NBA seasons and 609 games for six franchises.
About 2010-11 Panini Timeless Treasures. Timeless Treasures is Panini\'s old-money basketball release — cream card stock, gold filigree, and a checklist that runs from the current season straight back through the Hall of Fame. Nearly everything in the product is either serial numbered, signed, or carries memorabilia, and most of it is all three. The rookie cards at the back of the base set are on-card autographs on a leather panel, and the insert sets sit underneath them at print runs that fall away fast.
Condition. This card has been inspected front and back under direct light and is in near mint or better shape. Corners are sharp, the edges are clean, the surface is free of creases, dents and print defects, and the memorabilia window and foil are intact with no lifting. It has been stored in a penny sleeve inside a rigid top loader and has not been handled outside of protection. Please study the photographs closely — they are of the exact card you will receive, not a stock image, and they are the most accurate description of condition I can give you.
Shipping. Your card ships free. It travels in a penny sleeve inside a rigid top loader, secured against a stiffener, sealed in a team bag and sent inside a bubble mailer with the corners protected. Orders placed on a business day go out the same day or the next; weekend orders go out on Monday. Tracking is uploaded the moment the package is scanned. I ship every card the way I would want a card of mine to arrive.
About this listing. Top Shelf Trading AZ is a one-person operation in Arizona. Every card is photographed by hand, examined under light, and described by someone who has actually held it. If you have a question about this card — condition, the numbering, the material, the signature, anything — message me and you will get a real answer from a person. Offers are welcome. Thanks for looking.
