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1991 Allan Kaye’s Sports Cards · Portrait #2 · Hand-Cut · Pop 4
Michael Jordan
PSA 10 · Gem Mint
Value
$8,000
PSA 10 · Gem Mint
Rarity & certification
Rarity One of four PSA 10s
Provenance Hand-cut magazine portrait
Certification #103578078 · Verify on PSA →
Price history
PSA 10 · public auction record
Recorded Public PSA 10 Sales
None
No public sales on record
No public market · valued on rarity
With four PSA 10 copies in existence and no recorded public sales, this hand-cut portrait has no established auction price. The estimated value of $8,000 reflects collector-to-collector pricing for a Pop 4 gem mint example of an oversized magazine portrait insert.
Source: PSA Auction Prices Realized · PSA 10 only
PSA population
Grade distribution from PSA census
Grade Count
PSA 10 ★ 4
PSA 9 6
PSA 8 4
PSA 6 2
Total graded 16
Why this card
DimeLabs perspective
Allan Kaye’s Sports Cards News & Price Guides was an early-1990s hobby magazine — a monthly price guide and news title that competed with the established guides of the era. Its hook was the insert cards bound directly into each issue: alongside a sheet of standard-size player cards, the magazine carried oversized portrait cards that readers cut out by hand from the publication itself. There were no factory-cut copies and no packs — every example began as part of a magazine page, which is why PSA designates this variety ‘Portrait · Hand-Cut.’ This is card #2, Michael Jordan, from the 1991 Portraits series. The front is a painted portrait by the artist Clifford Spohn — a composite of Jordan driving the lane, his number 23, and a large head-and-shoulders likeness beneath an oversized ‘MICHAEL JORDAN’ treatment. The back, headed ‘Allan Kaye’s Sports Cards News & Price Guides,’ carries a 1991 Chicago Bulls Champions writeup, a photo of Jordan, and a © 1991 credit to portrait artist Clifford Spohn. Because it is a large, hand-cut portrait piece rather than a standard trading card — bigger than the Nike poster cards and far larger than a typical postcard insert — condition is unusually demanding: any imperfect hand cut, soft corner or surface flaw drops the grade. Across all grades, PSA has graded just 16 copies, and only four have received a PSA 10. DimeLabs owns one of those four.
Grade & Certification
Grade PSA 10 · Gem Mint
Certification number 103578078
Card details
Publisher Allan Kaye’s Sports Cards
Card # #2
Series 1991 Portraits
Format Hand-cut portrait
Format Size Oversized portrait
Portrait Artist Clifford Spohn
Storage PSA Vault
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