Continuing our discussions with Nike Mike, we asked him about some unusual 5 x 7s that we have come across over the years and that have popped up on EBay recently.
The Barkley shown below was recently for sale. Note it would not be included in our 1982 - 1992 5 x 7 set because it does not have a Nike number , i.e. 290XXX but rather what we call an OSP number 5XXX
Remember OSP is the printing company that Nike turned over poster production to in late 1992. So I'm not saying they are not real or are not collectable, just that the 5 x 7 Nike set with Nike numbers was ended in 1992 and the last number that we have found in sequence is 291015.
Mike says " First of all Nike never released any poster cards that had hand written numbers on them like this one. (NIKE) did not
produce them. They were produced by the distribution partner (OSP). I can tell
because of how they were produced- very sloppy and also rather than reduce the
poster mechanical, the printed poster was photographed. I do have a copy of 5337 Barkley (photo below) as it was finally released with OSP number."
So it looks like all of the 5 x 7s with handwritten numbers were OSP development pieces done in 1993 or later that some worker brought home. In fact a lot of these were sold a few years ago that included the film that the picture was developed from (see below) This substantiates Mikes recollection to a tee.
Below is a film that our buddy Bruce "paqrat" Fisher obtained a few years ago for a Strawberry "Cream of the Crop" that they must have been getting ready to reprint.
BEWARE - having this piece of film means anyone could begin reprinting these. In fact that looks like it has already happened. Bruce has sent a photo of the back of one of these and it is printed on Kodak paper like you'd get today from a drug store printing process. To my knowledge OSP never printed anything on paper with Kodak watermarks on it.
Happy collecting !
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