This is one of the most coveted Jordan Refractors of the mid-’90s — the 1996–97 Finest ‘Maestros’ Refractor #127, often called Jordan’s ‘Silver’ Refractor. Topps invented the rainbow-sheen Refractor as the chase parallel of its super-premium Finest brand, and the Maestros subset placed Jordan on a mirrored chromium surface under an ornate gold ‘Maestros / Finest’ nameplate, a fitting frame for a four-time MVP. The back, themed M35 and tagged ‘Uncommon,’ leans into that idea — a ‘Maestro Fact’ noting that ‘MJ’ and ‘MVP’ go hand-in-hand, with Jordan taking 96.5 percent of the vote for his fourth MVP, the highest share in the history of media balloting.

Finest Refractors of this era shipped with a thin protective film over the fragile chromium, and the great majority of surviving copies still wear that peel — it dulls the mirror and many collectors simply never removed it. Both DimeLabs copies have the protective coating removed, so the refractor reads the way it was meant to: full, undimmed rainbow shine straight off the chromium. That is also exactly why a clean one is so hard to find — the moment the peel comes off, the surface is exposed to scratching and toning, so an untoned, scratch-free PSA 10 of the peeled card is a tiny population. Of 131 copies graded across all grades, only 16 have reached PSA 10.