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Posted By: T206Collector

I was flipping back and forth between my Mathewson pitching poses this morning and I stumbled across something that never occurred to me before -- the artists of the two Mathewson pitching pose cards had to be different artists.





Then I started to think about the other times two artists made two different versions of the same pose -- and, unless I'm missing something, it was all in the Super Prints"

Evers Batting (blue/yellow)
Cobb Portrait (red/green)
Chase Portrait (pink/blue)
Chase Throwing (white cap/dark cap)
Chance Portrait (red/yellow)

Differently drawn images of the same player on the same team.

So, my theory is that a different artist was commissioned to paint the 6 super prints. That Cobb green was drawn first and followed by Cobb Red. And that the artist that drew Matty Dark was going off of the Matty White drawing and extrapolating that to the Matty Dark cap -- that he was not working off the original photograph, but just "enhancing" the original T206 art.

Any thoughts? Like, why would they need a separate artist to render the Super Prints? Why not just reissue the original Cobb Green as a Super Print?