Auction #16 - February 2024
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/25/2024
In 2015 Monsterwax issued a limited edition of “Dinosaur Galaxy” trading cards, featuring dozens of high-quality color images of dinosaurs. The artwork was supplied by several noted dinosaur artists, such as Luis Rey, Todd Marshall, and Ricardo Garijo, Jr.
This offering of NM-MT cards was assembled from an original box (numbered #92/500) and includes the following items:
- Basic series cards: #1-100 (100 cards
- “Majestic Metafauna” cards with an “MM” prefix: #1,2,3,4,5,6 (6 cards)
- “Bone War” cards with a “BW” prefix: #1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,40(24 cards)
- “Lenticular” cards with an “L” prefix: #2,4 (2 cards)
- “Original Art” card of Triceratops by Chris West (1 card)
- “Make-Your-Own Art” card (1 card)
- “Liquid Leviathan” semi-transparent cards (6 cards)
- “Monsterwax Metal Card” actual press plate used to print cards (one-of-a-kind)(1 card)
- “Dinosaur Galaxy Promo 2” card (1 card)
- “Checklist” card #92/999 (1 card)
- “Credit card” (1 card)
- Collapsed original cardboard box in which packs of cards were issued
- Dozens of wax wrappers from opened packsExtra info sheet.
This offering does not contain all the cards issued in this series: for example, it is clear from the checklist that there are 23 additional basic cards, numbered #101 through 123. However, this is an impressive accumulation of 144 cards plus auxiliary items which should be a pleasure-filled gift for a young person interested in dinosaurs (or an older person who can’t get their fill of them). All cards are stored in Cardsaver 1 plastic holders, and mounted in plastic 4-pocket pages in a thick looseleaf binder for convenient viewing.
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