W575-1 Anonymous Cards (Not Hand Cut, Not Strip Cards)
 

I am not sure I have seen a thread strictly on W575-1s in quite a while. One of my favorite finds......Show them if you care to.....(ad backs are fine too)

Drives me crazy that they're called strip cards. Cool envelope!

They are cool as can be, sir!

Here are the cards you would expect to see from me. :)

I'm still seeking the E. S. Rice version for my Sam Rice master collectiom.

Had this tucked away. You sure don't see these much. PSA has only graded one, an "authentic". And just don't see how they are hand cut.

Touch'EmAll, it appears to me that thet the bottom border of your very nice WaJo card is hand cut. This is one reason I suspect that your card is not a W575-1, but rather a W501 Type 2 (or W501-2) card, which to the best of my knowledge is not yet recognized by the TPGs. Net54er Rhett Yeakley wrote about these in the Fall 2011 issue of Old Cardboard Magazine - see pics of the relevant pages below. In addition to the way Rhett says you can tell them apart, I have found that the rectangular box containing the player's pic of a W575-1 card is approx. 1/16" wider and 1/16" higher than that of a W501-1 and a W501-2. I have also included below pics of my W501-1 and W501-2 cards of WaJo which appear to look more like your card than my W575-1 of WaJo that I showed earlier in this thread. I hope this info is helpful, rather than disappointing, to you. If Rhett sees this thread, hopefully he will chime in.

I only have this one:

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Many W575-1 cards appear to be factory cut, but there are plenty of strip issued W575-1 out there as well. It seems like this set was issued in different ways.


Here are 3 that I believe were issued in strip form, as vertical strips. The first and third are W575-1 card versions that Rhett identified as having the same grainy look as the W501 cards, without the 'G-4 22' printed in upper left border and printed card number on upper right border. The Danforth is freakishly wide. I believe these W501 similar cards were also issued in vertical strips, as most of the ones I have seen have a non-factory cut on top and bottom borders, or jagged as if torn off from a roll, as Rhett mentioned in the article above. The middle card has a little bit of the top border line visible on its bottom border, as well as being hand cut to photo border on the sides.

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The first two cards in the next grouping are factory cut like Leon's example, and have a Henry Johnson and Service Candy Co. stamps (by the way, both have the same street address in Alameda, CA - two companies running out of the same building?). The third and fourth in the row are just normal W575-1 cards that appear factory cut.

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The following row of Steve O'Neill cards starts with a factory cut card (despite the post-factory wear on side borders), another Service Candy Co. stamped factory cut (stamp is very faint...you are going to have to trust me on this), and two examples that I believe are strip cards that were issued in vertical strips, with the third card being a non-grainy with nicer photo and obviously being cut down after the fact to remove side borders, and the fourth being one of the W501-like W575-1 cards. It is interesting that between the two strip issued cards there is a difference in the spacing of the line containing his name and the line with the team, as well as a similar difference in this spacing between the two factory cut examples.

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Definitely a lot of versions of these cards out there, but understandably these long ago all got lumped together under the W575-1 designation because of the shared player photos.

Brian

How many strips have you seen?

I do not remember any strips, nor have I really been looking. Certain of these W575-1 cards fall into a pattern of parallel, machine cut side borders and uneven top/borders, that is, in my opinion, consistent with them being from a vertical strip.

You had a great find with your W575-1 cards...they pretty much confirm that some (or many) W575-1 cards did not come in strip form.

Brian

Great info on W575-1 vs. W501 Type 2, thank you, and very interesting. Both being obscure and super low pops is anything but disappointing. It's just really cool to own such a rare item. So should I just let it be as is encapsulated by SGC ? Or would there be any advantage (or disadvantage) to having SGC take another look at the card ?

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If I were in your shoes and felt that my W575-1 was actually a W501-2, I wouldn't send it back to SGC without first speaking with someone at SGC's research dept. who claims to be familiar with the W575 and W501 issues (I don't know if this is even possible). If you get to speak with such a SGC rep and this rep seems genuinely interested in what you are explaining to him, then it might be worth sending the card to SGC for a second look. My guess is that SGC doesn't really care, but then again I'm not a fan of any of the TPGs when it comes to their abilities and desires to properly ID cards from obscure pre-War sets. And, before contacting SGC, I would contact Rhett Yeakley (his contact info is found in the "Vintage Links" section (see top of every page) and ask him if he has ever attempted to get any of the TPGs to recognize the W501-2 cards, and if so, what sort of response he received. If you do have a go at this, I wish you complete success.

The reason you haven't seen them is because they were never issued in strips, alas, not hand cut. When they are all wavy, they are trimmed. Not hand cut! And anyone that puts hand cut on their flips is just wrong. It's not a gray area... These number grades are total BS too...

A favorite from my collection

Great card. The Henry Johnson stamped cards (as well as the Service Candy Co. stamped cards) that I have seen appear to be machine cut, just like Leon's examples.

Once again, I am not negating the fact that these cards were issued in this format, just indicating my belief that some of the cards that have been traditionally lumped into the W575-1 classification (including the W501-2 that Rhett was the first to identify) were not offered as individual cards.

Just as it is incorrect for the grading companies to automatically identify all 'W575-1' cards as hand cut, in my opinion it is also incorrect to classify all cards that have traditionally been classified as W575-1 to be machine cut.


Brian

I agree for the most part :) (not that it really matters)

Since we have almost never seen sheets or strips of W575-1, I will continue to believe they were not hand cut when distributed, until I see any other evidence.

"Just the facts ma'am" Sgt. Joe Friday

It's a great conversation. It's always ok to agree to disagree too.

W575-1 or W501-2, who knows, but it's a great card

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The bottom edge says W501....

Don, I agree with Leon. I'm 99.9% sure that your super nice Sisler card is a W501-2. Hopefully, you will have it in your display at the upcoming Net54 get together in No. VA.

I also agree with Leon in that I believe that all "true" W575-1 cards are machine cut on all 4 sides. And, I believe that W501-1 and W501-2 cards are all machine cut on both the right and left sides, but that either the top side or the bottom side or both are hand cut. Hence, I believe W501-1 and W501-2 cards were issued in vertical strips, but I suspect the strips were short because a good percentage of those that I've seen appeared to have a machine-cut top or bottom.

Nice to see these cards getting some love!

Feel free to chime on with thoughts on these cards, especially if you possess especially nice chimes (no bamboo chimes, please)...were the below cards cut from a strip, or do you think perhaps a sheet? The cutter was fairly consistent with what they wanted as an end result, which sometimes included the top line of the card that would be right beneath it (check out the Holke, Jacobson, Judge and Lewis cards). They are definitely not W501-2 examples, because of their non-grainy look, thicker paper stock, and different position designations for certain positions (for example '1st B' instead of the '1B') than what would be seen on W501-2 cards.

Brian

Here's the uncut sheet / store display:

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I also have a beater partial sheet of this.

Those are all 1921 parallel to E121 Series of 80 subjects or are from that era of the print run (likely from the same vintage collection I’d imagine) so they would not be W501-2…as the W501 series is a parallel set to the E121 Series of 120 set in 1922.

They were probably cut from a poster/sheet due to crazy bottom cuts. We know of a few sheets that exist…no idea if they were sold this way or if that was an advertising poster to sell the cards.

And from Rhett:

Those are all 1921 parallel to E121 Series of 80 subjects or are from that era of the print run (likely from the same vintage collection I’d imagine) so they would not be W501-2…as the W501 series is a parallel set to the E121 Series of 120 set in 1922.

They were probably cut from a poster/sheet due to crazy bottom cuts. We know of a few sheets that exist…no idea if they were sold this way or if that was an advertising poster to sell the cards.


Thanks Glen and Rhett...I now remember seeing that sheet before. Because of the sheet possibility, I might just be leaning toward the Leon way of thinking, but I still think I have some others from the 'E121 Series of 80' parallel group that just have bad cuts on top and/or bottom, but straight sides. My next post, whenever I get to it, will post some of these (if I indeed have any).

Brian

Here are 2 Wally Pipp's...