In recent years, i have gotten a little bit into the locker name plates.
Just some info that I thought could be handy.
The company that makes the locker room nameplate for MLB is http://www.tag-up.com/
I went to their site, to see about making replicas. Just for displaying on my collection. As on their FAQ page, they will NOT do that at all. Their licenses are not for retail at all, so getting a fake MLB locker plate would be near impossible, because all the plates I have seen have the company information on the plate in the lower right corner (EXCEPT of coarse, the Yankees).
I even asked about production runs (like what is done for bat records) and they said, it is usually just one done per player, they do that print run of the entire team and mail them all out together, world series, all star games are a little different though.
Nice to know that there probably are not fakes floating around.
But for example you could special order whatever you want as long as there is no team logo and exact phrase of a team like "Baltimore Orioles" together on the palte. But, I wonder if you could get "Baltimore" on one part of the plate and on another area get "Orioles". You can design it anyway that you want and probably use team colors and maybe even fonts, but no logos. I bet you could copy the design of a team's plate and take off the logos and make it with the player's name and number that you would want.
So, I guess a plate with no team or mlb logo, it would be a huge red flag as fake...
The factory is not too far from my hometown, and would kind of like to see how the process takes place though.
Just some info that I thought could be handy.
The company that makes the locker room nameplate for MLB is http://www.tag-up.com/
I went to their site, to see about making replicas. Just for displaying on my collection. As on their FAQ page, they will NOT do that at all. Their licenses are not for retail at all, so getting a fake MLB locker plate would be near impossible, because all the plates I have seen have the company information on the plate in the lower right corner (EXCEPT of coarse, the Yankees).
I even asked about production runs (like what is done for bat records) and they said, it is usually just one done per player, they do that print run of the entire team and mail them all out together, world series, all star games are a little different though.
Nice to know that there probably are not fakes floating around.
But for example you could special order whatever you want as long as there is no team logo and exact phrase of a team like "Baltimore Orioles" together on the palte. But, I wonder if you could get "Baltimore" on one part of the plate and on another area get "Orioles". You can design it anyway that you want and probably use team colors and maybe even fonts, but no logos. I bet you could copy the design of a team's plate and take off the logos and make it with the player's name and number that you would want.
So, I guess a plate with no team or mlb logo, it would be a huge red flag as fake...
The factory is not too far from my hometown, and would kind of like to see how the process takes place though.
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