Earning Their Stripes

[Bosox Blair]

Card Grading Trainer: "OK guys, now that you have made it through spotting fakes, rebuilt corners, microtrimming, black light use, etc., it is time we move on to more advanced matters.

Let's start with identifying a striped hat vs. a white hat. Hmmmm, this may require further training...":

[VinTX]

hahahaha...that's too funny

[leftygrove10]

Too funny.... Perhaps if the price guides/checklists had listed these cards as "Blue Collar" vs "White Collar", it would have been less confusing....

[cozmokramer]

Very interesting, neither of mine are labeled with the variation.

And these both happen to be for sale and/or trade! PM me if interested!

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[Bosox Blair]

Too funny.... Perhaps if the price guides/checklists had listed these cards as "Blue Collar" vs "White Collar", it would have been less confusing....

Hi Brad,

That might have worked! I note that Lew Lipset distinguished the cards by calling them: Striped Hat Blue Background, and White Hat Green Background.

I guess the flips wouldn't have room for all that!

As an additional note, these cards and the ones Cosmo showed are a further caution that pop reports are not the gospel. Considering that these cards have a PSA pop of around 5 examples, a mistake in the identification can throw the pop report off in a major way.

Cheers,
Blair

[fkw]

Funny... "Green" and "Blue" would have been easy too, but they might have messed that up to :)

PS
Cozmo's scarce T216 cards also show the much scarcer thin stock "large scroll" on back, compared to the normal stock "small scroll" design...
There was a thread a few days back talking about the thin stock T216s.

[LanceRoten]

:D

[leftygrove10]

That's funny.... I didn't even notice that the backgrounds were different colors.....