Deadshot
12-19-2022, 10:34 PM
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Back in June 2017, Panini announced (https://blog.paniniamerica.net/reg-gie-reg-gie-reg-gie-miller-ink-set-to-make-triumphant-return-to-the-nba/)that they had signed a deal with Reggie Miller and he’d be showing up in their products soon. This blog post specifically mentioned that he would be in the Panini Preferred Silhouettes set. While those weren’t out yet, they also teased an Instant Access auto that they planned to release online.
I already had a couple pre-Panini Reggie autos, so the Instant stuff didn’t interest me at all. I figured I would save my money for future memorabilia cards instead (which I did).
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51232652104_85d59ea751.jpg
Fast forward to about a month ago, and I was doing a little project where I was making a list of all the Pacers games I had been to and trying to find cards that depicted those games. It involved a ton of searching on Getty Images and COMC. One of those games was a February 2005 Pacers/Magic game in Orlando. Here's a pictures I took at the game on my digital camera:
https://i.ibb.co/4d3rZVX/Miller-Jax-small.jpg
As I was looking through the game photos on Getty, I realized one of the Reggie Miller shots looked very familiar. It turns out that Panini had used it on a handful of cards, including the Instant Access auto they plugged at the beginning of Reggie’s time with the company.
https://i.ibb.co/DR6CQmJ/Reggie-orlando-getty.jpg
Eventually one of these showed up on eBay for a reasonable price, and the rest is history. As an added bonus, I was reading more about Reggie’s first Panini signing only to find out it had been completed with former Panini employee Tone Stakes, who I had back on my podcast a couple times back in April of 2020 (https://waxmuseum.podbean.com/e/episode-60-conversation-with-an-industry-employee-part-1/).
Here's the copy I picked up - thanks for letting me share!
https://i.ibb.co/wK1RsqS/Reggie-Miller-Instant-Access-auto-smaller.jpg
Back in June 2017, Panini announced (https://blog.paniniamerica.net/reg-gie-reg-gie-reg-gie-miller-ink-set-to-make-triumphant-return-to-the-nba/)that they had signed a deal with Reggie Miller and he’d be showing up in their products soon. This blog post specifically mentioned that he would be in the Panini Preferred Silhouettes set. While those weren’t out yet, they also teased an Instant Access auto that they planned to release online.
I already had a couple pre-Panini Reggie autos, so the Instant stuff didn’t interest me at all. I figured I would save my money for future memorabilia cards instead (which I did).
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51232652104_85d59ea751.jpg
Fast forward to about a month ago, and I was doing a little project where I was making a list of all the Pacers games I had been to and trying to find cards that depicted those games. It involved a ton of searching on Getty Images and COMC. One of those games was a February 2005 Pacers/Magic game in Orlando. Here's a pictures I took at the game on my digital camera:
https://i.ibb.co/4d3rZVX/Miller-Jax-small.jpg
As I was looking through the game photos on Getty, I realized one of the Reggie Miller shots looked very familiar. It turns out that Panini had used it on a handful of cards, including the Instant Access auto they plugged at the beginning of Reggie’s time with the company.
https://i.ibb.co/DR6CQmJ/Reggie-orlando-getty.jpg
Eventually one of these showed up on eBay for a reasonable price, and the rest is history. As an added bonus, I was reading more about Reggie’s first Panini signing only to find out it had been completed with former Panini employee Tone Stakes, who I had back on my podcast a couple times back in April of 2020 (https://waxmuseum.podbean.com/e/episode-60-conversation-with-an-industry-employee-part-1/).
Here's the copy I picked up - thanks for letting me share!
https://i.ibb.co/wK1RsqS/Reggie-Miller-Instant-Access-auto-smaller.jpg