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2000 Gym Heroes Sabrina's Gengar #14/132
Case CK49RJFR · Andy H.
Run Up
- Year
- 2000
- Set
- Gym Heroes
- Illustrator
- Ken Sugimori
- Ungraded value
- $380-733
Gym Heroes - the FIRST Gym-themed English set (2000), 132 cards, built around the Kanto Gym Leaders' own Pokemon. (Sabrina's Gengar in the later Gym Challenge set is #29 - this 14/132 is Gym Heroes.)
Ungraded value is a p25-p75 range across active listings for this exact printing, dated on the day it was pulled. It is a market observation, not an offer or an appraisal.
Where your card is
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Run UpComplete
The card identified and valued before anyone touches it.
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CleaningComplete
Surface work, logged zone by zone as it happens.
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RevealComplete
The post-press review, filmed end to end.
Card profile
- Player
- Sabrina's Gengar
- Set
- Gym Heroes
- Year
- 2000
- Card number
- 14/132
Case
- Case
- CK49RJFR
- Client
- Andy H.
- Received
- 2026-07-26
Work performed
- A full intake walk of the front, and of the back as far as the right edge, with nine zones scored out loud and a pre-grade of 7 overall.
- Both faces cleaned. The card was not dirty.
- The line across the holo was examined under magnification: it is dried printer ink, printed onto the foil at the factory, not a marker line or damage. Cleaning did not remove it.
- Acetone might remove that ink. Decided 2026-09-19: no acetone. The ink line stays as it was printed, and is noted here as part of this card.
- The edges and their whitening were deliberately not worked, to avoid leaving visible marks.
- Polished, front and back.
- Pressed from 2026-09-12 to 2026-09-19, seven days, to take out a curvature from being stored on its side.
TCG Partnerz grade our own 10-point working assessment
front
back
Hover or tap any zone to read its grade and what was said about it.
Tap a zone for what was said about it. Edges and corners are one piece of cardboard seen from either side; quadrants are the two faces' own surfaces. A zone marked ? was described but never scored, so no number is claimed for it.
A subjective in-house review scored by quadrant, corner and side, not a third-party grade. This map is the card as it arrived, from the intake walk on 2026-09-12. Nine of the twenty-four zones were given a number out loud; the fifteen marked ? were described but not scored, or were not reached in the walk, so no number is claimed for them. The Before figure of 7 is the pre-grade Lucas gave the whole card at intake. The After figure of 9 is the overall he gave it after the clean, just before it went into the press; the look after the press on 2026-09-19 added no new number. The line across the holo is factory ink and is not counted as damage.
Restoration walkthrough
Tap any timestamp to jump to that moment in the video. Work = an action performed on the card; Check = an inspection or note.
The intake walk
- V1 0:00 Check The card named: Sabrina's Gengar, Gym Heroes, 2000, art by Sugimori.
- V1 0:57 Check First look: in good condition, a slight dent at the top.
- V1 1:45 Check A line across the holo is spotted.
- V1 3:16 Check Front top: a trace of whitening, likely to come out in the press.
- V1 3:35 Check Front top-left corner 8, top edge 9, top-right corner 9.
- V1 4:24 Check Front right edge 9.
- V1 5:17 Check Front bottom-right corner: small whitening. A ridge of light from standing on its side.
- V1 5:59 Check Front bottom-left corner 9.
- V1 7:25 Check Front left edge 9.
- V1 8:09 Check Top-left of the front: "just perfect", a small pressure point.
- V1 8:32 Check A slight curvature in the card.
- V1 8:57 Check The front: 9.5.
- V1 10:08 Check Light scratches on the holo.
- V1 10:44 Check The front: 9.
- V1 10:57 Check Back top-left corner 9. Whitening along the top.
- V1 11:53 Check Back top-right corner: a small indent.
- V1 12:24 Check Back right edge 7, top-right corner 8.
- V1 13:49 Check Pre-grade for the whole card: 7.
The clean, and the line on the holo
- V1 14:47 Work Workspace cleaned for the clean.
- V1 15:29 Work Front cleaned. The card was not dirty.
- V1 16:12 Check Trying to lift the line on the holo.
- V1 18:42 Check It is not coming off.
- V2 0:00 Check Under magnification: rows of small squares printed onto the foil.
- V2 1:00 Check The red blush was on the card before cleaning.
- V2 2:30 Check Edges deliberately not pushed.
- V2 3:30 Check Dried printer ink. Acetone might lift it, but only with the owner's say-so.
Polish, and into the press
- V2 4:36 Check Into the press.
- V2 6:02 Check "I'm going to give the card an overall nine."
- V2 6:43 Check Back out: the polish was skipped.
- V2 7:07 Check Polish across the holo.
- V2 10:27 Check The back polished.
- V2 11:35 Check No bodywork was needed on this one.
- V2 11:59 Work Back into the press, a clamp at each corner.
Out of the press
Sessions (5 on record)
No defects recorded in this session (not a clean bill).
Identified on camera: Sabrina's Gengar, Gym Heroes, 2000, Pokemon 94, art by Sugimori 00:00. No holo swirls, big dots 00:00. First impression: looks like it's in pretty good condition
, with a slight dent at the top 00:57. A line across the holo is spotted at 01:45 (Somebody took a marker across it?
); see the next session for what it turned out to be.
Top: a trace of whitening, so minuscule
, likely to come out in the press 03:16. Top corner 8, top edge 9, top-right corner 9 (little indention
) 03:35. Right edge 9 04:24 (said as the right side on the back
while walking the front; the back walk begins at 10:57). Bottom-right corner: small whitening, if it didn't have that little edge, I'd give it a nine
, no number 04:24 05:17. A ridge of light along the edge, attributed to the card being stood on its side with others, print intact 05:17. Bottom-left corner 9 05:59. Left edge 9 07:25. Top-left quadrant just perfect
, with a little pressure point near Haunter
08:09; no holo bleed into the print 08:32. The card has a slight curvature from standing on its side 08:32. A couple of light scratches on the holo 10:08 10:44. Front face: 9.5 at 08:57, then 9 at 10:44.
Top-left corner: a nine, man ... maybe an eight
10:57. Top edge: whitening in threes
, not scored 10:57. Top-right corner: an indent, enough to give it a nine
11:53, then the top right corner ... a eight
12:24. Right edge 7, the worst of the card 12:24. This corner piece down here
called the hardest 11:53 12:24, not scored. The bottom edge, bottom corners and left edge of the back were not reached in the walk; the back surface looks good
13:49, not scored.
No defects recorded in this session (not a clean bill).
Workspace cleaned, no tape this time A 14:47. Front cleaned starting at the bottom; this card did not look dirty
A 15:29. Tried to lift the line on the holo A 16:12-18:42: It's not coming off. Duly noted
A 18:42.
Under close zoom it is rows of small squares, like Morse code
, printed onto the foil; a residue around them wiped away cleanly B 00:00-00:30. A faint red blush with two little wings
nearby was checked against the earlier photos and found to be on the card before any cleaning B 01:00. Definitely dried ink print
B 03:30.
NOT A DEFECT.
B 03:30-04:00: the ink may come off with acetone if the owner wants to go further, but it was not attempted without his permission. Back cleaned B 02:00. Edges deliberately not pushed: the owner's cards are for his own collection, and working the whitening could leave visible trenches B 02:30-03:00.
No defects recorded in this session (not a clean bill).
Into the press to take out the curvature B 04:00-05:36, planned for two or three days
. I'm going to give the card an overall nine
B 06:02, after the clean and before pressing, with whitening still expected at the edges. Taken back out because the polish had been skipped B 06:43: polish applied evenly across the holo, which he says also makes the fine cracks less visible once dry B 07:07-09:39, then the back B 10:27. I didn't have to do any work on this one
B 11:35. Back into the press with a clamp at each corner B 11:59-12:56. Came out on 2026-09-19, seven days later.
No defects recorded in this session (not a clean bill).
Out of the press. Looks brand new
C 00:32. Some of the scratches are still there, but the smaller ones are gone
C 00:44. The printed line on the holo remains, definitely something I could not take out
, and he is not quite sure if it didn't cause that sort of light rust blemish
C 00:44. One edge we didn't get ... too well
C 01:18. No number was spoken at this sitting.
No defects recorded in this session (not a clean bill).
It is now complete
C 01:59. I didn't do much bodywork on this one
: cleaned, polished and pressed, with a week or two to let the fibres settle C 02:12. An open question, recorded as he put it and not answered here: can we run this as an error card? That's the question
C 02:12-02:42. The overall grade on this case is the 9 he gave at B 06:02; no other number was spoken after the press.
Watch the restoration
Photo record
Post-press · Sat 19 Sep 2026 · 6 photos
TCG Partnerz · work record, not a grade. Photographs taken during the documented sessions for this card; order follows the custody chain.