2018-19 Encased · autograph set

Endorsements

Cards 

45

Parallels 

7

COUNT DISAGREEMENT, WRITTEN AS THE FIGURE I COUNTED MYSELF. tcdb states Total Cards "43" and renders 43 rows - self-consistent, which EXTRACTION_SPEC warns is not by itself evidence. cardboardconnection heads it "Endorsements Autographs (45 cards)" and checklistcenter "Endorsements Auto Set" / "45 Cards - Serial Numbered as Noted", i.e. both aggregators say 45. 43 is written because it is the count rendered on a page I read; see gaps G-005. Letter-coded EN- card numbers, first row "EN-AHS | Allan Houston | New York Knicks | AU, SN49". PER-CARD VARIABLE SERIAL: the distinct flag tokens across the set are AU, SN25, SN35, SN49 and SN99, so no single print run describes it; checklistcenter says exactly that in words - "Serial Numbered as Noted". https://www.tcdb.com/ViewSet.cfm/sid/210633/2018-19-Panini-Encased-Endorsements NOTE ON CORROBORATION: cardboardconnection and checklistcenter agree on this count, but reference/caveats.csv CAV-033 records them as ONE editorial lineage rather than two independent sources, and beckett.com - the usual third structural source - is unreachable (302 to a maintenance page). Read "two sources agree" here as one opinion plus tcdb. [CORRECTED 2026-09-22: card_count was written as 43, tcdb's own base-page figure, and is now 45. The set's Blue FOTL parallel page renders 45 rows and states Total Cards "45" (https://www.tcdb.com/ViewSet.cfm/sid/210634/2018-19-Panini-Encased-Endorsements-Blue-FOTL), and its Bronze FOTL page states 44 and renders 44 (https://www.tcdb.com/ViewSet.cfm/sid/210635/2018-19-Panini-Encased-Endorsements-Bronze-FOTL) - so the base page at 43 is simply SHORT, not authoritative, and 45 is what cardboardconnection and checklistcenter both state. This is the CHASE_CHECKLIST_SPEC parallel-page recovery case, settled by a page inside tcdb rather than by the two aggregators, which are one editorial lineage. The original 43 and the reasoning for it are left in the prose above deliberately.]