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<blockquote data-quote="olisuds" data-source="post: 492278" data-attributes="member: 2119"><p>Great thanks Jason that's really helpful. </p><p></p><p>So trying to piece this together, cards up to and including 45a were produced in Hong Kong. Were they assembled there too or sent to the UK to be assembled?</p><p></p><p>And 45b and onwards (excluding some anomolies) were produced in the UK at Lithographic printers that supplied Palitoy? I guess i'm keen to know more about this part of the process. Did Kenner provide the design in some format to Palitoy and they shared with the printers? Did the printers mock these up or provide design concepts or were they already provided that?</p><p></p><p>Apologies, lots of questions that i expect are extremely difficult to answer and to be honest my knowledge here is very limited so my understanding and assumptions may be completely wrong.</p><p></p><p>I was actually the buyer of those unused ESB cards. I have reached out to the seller a couple of times to see if i could get anymore background info but unfortunately he hasn't responded. What interested me most about those cards was that all of the unused cardbacks i have seen to this point have ROTJ that were obtained or originated from the Palitoy factory. These ESB cardbacks originated from the lithographic printers in Northampton so I was keen to understand their purpose and nature. Perhaps they were design samples provided to Palitoy or perhaps they were just part of the regular production run that would have been sent to Palitoy and assembled. I had noticed that the card stock was much thinner than normal and very much reminded me of the "common proof card" format however since I don't have a production card to compare it against I'm unable to verify this yet and didn't want to make assumptions.</p><p></p><p>Anyway it has sparked a lot of interest in learning more about the design and production process for Palitoy cards.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="olisuds, post: 492278, member: 2119"] Great thanks Jason that's really helpful. So trying to piece this together, cards up to and including 45a were produced in Hong Kong. Were they assembled there too or sent to the UK to be assembled? And 45b and onwards (excluding some anomolies) were produced in the UK at Lithographic printers that supplied Palitoy? I guess i'm keen to know more about this part of the process. Did Kenner provide the design in some format to Palitoy and they shared with the printers? Did the printers mock these up or provide design concepts or were they already provided that? Apologies, lots of questions that i expect are extremely difficult to answer and to be honest my knowledge here is very limited so my understanding and assumptions may be completely wrong. I was actually the buyer of those unused ESB cards. I have reached out to the seller a couple of times to see if i could get anymore background info but unfortunately he hasn't responded. What interested me most about those cards was that all of the unused cardbacks i have seen to this point have ROTJ that were obtained or originated from the Palitoy factory. These ESB cardbacks originated from the lithographic printers in Northampton so I was keen to understand their purpose and nature. Perhaps they were design samples provided to Palitoy or perhaps they were just part of the regular production run that would have been sent to Palitoy and assembled. I had noticed that the card stock was much thinner than normal and very much reminded me of the "common proof card" format however since I don't have a production card to compare it against I'm unable to verify this yet and didn't want to make assumptions. Anyway it has sparked a lot of interest in learning more about the design and production process for Palitoy cards. [/QUOTE]
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