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Originally Posted by Spike
The pain tells that I'm still alive! *Hnnnnnggggggggh*
(In serious, I thought the 1921 Universal set would at least be "normal" strip cards without reversed images seen in so many other strip sets to worry about -- and then a friend sent me their Boy Scouts card with reverse-printed Universal © text on the top. So at least one reversed strip made it out of the factory! TBD if any others exist.)
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It has been a while since I hunted these but off the top of my head...
They are all w516-1; similar to w515-1 and w515-2. Many of the cards will not have lettering at the top. W516-1 has several paper variations, however the universal cards will be more brown than white. The toughest w516 cards are the w516-1-2; paper is very white like e121s. Grading companies label w516 variations incorrectly more often than not.
I have a lot of these and refer to them this way
W516-1: white or tan paper varon cards 1-10, mostly tan 11-30, easiest
W516-2: universal w516-1s, also includes the school version
W516-3: currently recognized as w516-1-2, toughest in my experience
W516-4: currently w516-2-1
W516-5: w516-2-2, 2nd easiest, except the cicotte no number var
W516-6: w516-2-3, 2nd toughest
Edited to add
W516-7: from the poster, unnumbered; i have only George Burns
Big heads are not part of the w516 set, nor are the boxing big heads part of the w529 set imo. Maybe related to w9316, though I'd have to check my notes to remember why.