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Brian H (misunderestimated)PSA (sigh)
Yes, PSA decided the recognize the variation -- which in fact was only acknowledged(even by most serious T205 collectors) fairly recently. At the time they had graded a fair number of Wilhelms and of course they had no idea which ones were "suffered" and which ones were "suff red." I'm not really sure what they should have done since their are not many people who collect T205 master sets to begin with.
Anyway, since labeling the incorrect version the same as the ones they had already graded would have been contradictory to the labels and grading card companies can't practicably do "recalls," they started labelling the errors as they came in. Yes, reading the Pop report without any other knowledge now suggests that the error is the more scarce of the two version which is wrong. I really have trouble blaming them for this though. At least they responded to collector/customers and started to distinguish which I find commendable.
Regardless, Wilhelm was always among the very toughest cards in the set so even the more common version is still plenty hard to come by. From a dealer/seller/investor perspective I guess any Wilhelm is not too bad an acquisition at the price initially posted.