Earning Their Stripes

[Bosox Blair]

Card Grading Trainer: "OK guys, now that you have made it through spotting fakes, rebuilt corners, microtrimming, black light use, etc., it is time we move on to more advanced matters.

Let's start with identifying a striped hat vs. a white hat. Hmmmm, this may require further training...":

[VinTX]

hahahaha...that's too funny

[leftygrove10]

Too funny.... Perhaps if the price guides/checklists had listed these cards as "Blue Collar" vs "White Collar", it would have been less confusing....

[cozmokramer]

Very interesting, neither of mine are labeled with the variation.

And these both happen to be for sale and/or trade! PM me if interested!

[Bosox Blair]

Originally Posted by leftygrove10

Too funny.... Perhaps if the price guides/checklists had listed these cards as "Blue Collar" vs "White Collar", it would have been less confusing....

Hi Brad,

That might have worked! I note that Lew Lipset distinguished the cards by calling them: Striped Hat Blue Background, and White Hat Green Background.

I guess the flips wouldn't have room for all that!

As an additional note, these cards and the ones Cosmo showed are a further caution that pop reports are not the gospel. Considering that these cards have a PSA pop of around 5 examples, a mistake in the identification can throw the pop report off in a major way.

Cheers,
Blair

[fkw]

Funny... "Green" and "Blue" would have been easy too, but they might have messed that up to

PS
Cozmo's scarce T216 cards also show the much scarcer thin stock "large scroll" on back, compared to the normal stock "small scroll" design...
There was a thread a few days back talking about the thin stock T216s.

[LanceRoten]

[leftygrove10]

That's funny.... I didn't even notice that the backgrounds were different colors.....