NEW CARD ADDED and better Pics!! T205 Latham HLC only? Variation
 

I need some help here. I have scans of 4 HLC Lathams. 3 of the 4 show a period before the A like the W.A. Variation. The 2 graded cards(my scanner sucks on slabs) show a light ink area before the period where the W should be that looks like a M instead of a W. The most beat up one looks like there was a spot erased through there? Most likely an alteration made back when A Lathams were worth more than WA? Also this card has the darkest Wet Sheet Transfer on the front. All 4 of the ones I have as well as the one on ebay by seller YEPBG(send back scan to pup6913@hotmail.com.....PLEASE) have a Wet Sheet Transfer of the back on the face. I can also tell you the Backs were printed first because the Transfer is under the ink and not over on any of them.

So are there anymore like this with the period on the back or the wet sheet on the face?

There is a link to the Ebay card owned by yepbg (without back scan) below as well as scans of my 4 cards

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1911-T205-Ho...#ht_893wt_1189)

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differences?
 

The differences in print are so minute, as well as the wet sheet transfer you are talking about, that I can't even see them. Maybe I am not looking at them correctly?

My scanner sucks. With that being said I am interested more in any other Lathams that may be out there with a period before the A (not a WA:rolleyes:) or the Reverse under the ink on front.

Here is a link to my thread from 09" about this card when I first noticed it. The scan is of the first card shown on the left. Just to give you an idea of how crappy my scanner is now

http://www.net54baseball.com/showthr...ht=t205+latham

I added another to my collection of HLC backed Lathams. 4 of the 5 have a period before the A. So exactly how many need to surface to make this a legitimate variation.

All of them have wet sheet transfer under the ink on front. This is just a bizarre card. I wonder if maybe they printed the backs on the front to act as a way of shading??

I don't see it.

I don't either. Think someone is trying to stretch a double into a triple...

Yeah you are probably right. Nothing to see here. Everybody move on please


The 2 in the graded cases have a faint M or upside down W. The 3 stacked all exhibit the period before A. One I have looks as though someone scrubbed the W/M and period off, only a guess though.