Frasier Crane left the bar in Boston for a radio station in Seattle, and Rittenhouse followed him. Frasier Premiere Edition is the companion to the Cheers set and covers the first four seasons. This is what a box and a case contain.
The configuration
A box holds 24 packs of 5 cards with 2 on-card autographs, Blue parallel base cards, one Café Nervosa card, one Quotable Frasier card, two Character cards, two Memorable Duos cards and one Eddie card.
A sealed case of 12 boxes averages 24 autographs and 12 costume relics, and guarantees at least one signature from Kelsey Grammer, David Hyde Pierce or Peri Gilpin. The case topper is a Maroon parallel numbered to 13.
Rittenhouse also inserts hot boxes: boxes that contain a complete set of Blue or Maroon parallels. They are rare and look like any other box from the outside.
Who signs
The signer list is long, because Frasier collected guest stars from the theater: Kelsey Grammer, David Hyde Pierce, Peri Gilpin, Bebe Neuwirth, Dan Butler, Tom McGowan, Patrick Stewart, Jean Smart, Wendie Malick, Jennifer Beals, Linda Hamilton, Lisa Edelstein, Virginia Madsen, Mercedes Ruehl, Griffin Dunne, Robert Picardo, Trevor Einhorn and many more. Autographs come in full-bleed, bordered and inscription variants.
Two names appear in both sets. Kelsey Grammer and Bebe Neuwirth sign in Cheers as well, as Frasier and Lilith.
The relics and inserts
The costume relics carry screen-used material worn by Kelsey Grammer, John Mahoney — and Moose, the Jack Russell terrier who played Eddie. The nine Eddie cards are his own insert series.
The base set is 97 cards, one for every episode of Seasons 1 to 4. The inserts are Café Nervosa, Quotable Frasier, Character cards, Memorable Duos and Eddie, with Blue parallels numbered to 93. The rarest regular card is the John Mahoney In Memoriam card, numbered to 150.
All pull rates are averages across the full print run. No individual box or case is guaranteed to contain any particular insert, sketch or signer beyond the configuration described above.
See the Frasier Premiere Edition sealed box
See the Frasier Premiere Edition sealed case (12 boxes)
Read the guide to Cheers Premiere Edition
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