Carddass Zelda no Densetsu: Toki no Ocarina

Carddass Zelda no Densetsu: Toki no Ocarina — from The Japanese Candy & Vending Pair in the Zelda Cards Gallery.

The disciplined opposite of the Nagasakiya set: known maker, known count, a first card and a last card, and a checklist built like the game — prologue, a character-and-item run, prism centerpieces, finale. Seven prisms are documented by name in graded-market sources (No.1, 3, 5, 21, 38, 39 and the red-and-white checkered No.42 shown here). Boxed-set cards were held together with tight paper bands, and the bands plus 25 years of humidity worked on the survivors — indented edges and scuffed surfaces are this set’s fingerprint.

The safest packaging produced the damage: band pressure is the condition story of the whole set.

A complete 42-card set is a documented market object — collectors can finish this one.

The 1999 Carddass set, in the Library. How to tell Nagasakiya cards from Carddass cards. Is Carddass No.42 the same picture as Nagasakiya No.48?.

Shown here at its verified native size, 696×1200, the largest honest copy the Library holds for this object.

No verified back has been sighted for this object yet, so it is shown front-only — SOJ never pairs a front with an unverified back. The hunt for the missing backs continues, and each joins its page the week it verifies.