People asked about HOF variations earlier, as well as placement of title text on the strip and printing sheets.
1. The W516-1 version with title text has its own text alignment variations and one of them includes #24 Mathewson. Apologies to his player collectors!
2. Title text can appear multiple times on the same print sheet, above each strip. The boxer variations below show #6 Fulton's card has the "UNIVERSAL" title and another boxing strip _above_ it, so this appears to be a single sheet with repeated boxing strips. I think Universal Toy added their own text to compete against other strip card makers by confirming you were holding a Universal-made strip and (in 1921) adding copyright information to the end of their strips.
If you own cards that fill in the missing variations or have other interesting variations, please share scans!
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Last edited by Spike; 03-20-2023 at 03:09 PM.
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