Differences between W515-1 and W515-2

[glchen]

I recently purchased a lot of W515 strip cards that were closely trimmed to inside the borders, and I have been trying to determine if they are w515-1 or w515-2. The typical determining characteristics between the two according to old cardboard and the Standard Catalog are:

(1) W515-2 have the words "THE LITTLE WONDER PICTURE SERIES" above the top border of a full strip.

(2) The sizes of the cards are slightly different when you have the full box borders.

(3) The pictures of the players are cropped differently or look slightly different. For example, if you take a look at these W515-1 and W515-2 Walter Johnson's from another W515 thread here: Link, you can see that there is a lot of blue space above Wojo's cap in the W515-2, and there is lesser space above the W515-1 card.

For me, #3 is important because I can't use the #1 and #2 criteria since all of these cards I have are cut inside the borders (except for the bottom which still shows the player's name). However, this is something that is mentioned ambiguously in the Standard Catalog, but after reviewing a lot of these cards, I believe this can also be used as a criteria:

(4) The @U&U copyright for the W515-1 is on the same line at the player's name just below the bottom box border or just above that bottom box border while on the W515-2, the copyright is above the top border. If you look at the Walter Johnson cards from #3 criteria, you will see this. For cards that are cut inside the borders, the name on bottom is rarely cut off. Therefore, I believe that if I see the @U&U copyright on the bottom of the card, it is a W515-1. If I don't see it, then it's a W515-2.

Does anyone from their experience know if this #4 criteria is valid or are there some players in these sets that do not comply with this? If this is true, it would make it much easier and faster for me to determine what card is a W515-1 and W515-2 since I wouldn't have to compare the cropping differences using criteria #3 with known W515-1 and W515-2 images for each player off the internet. Thanks!


Edit: per post #3, rule #4 only works for cards #1-40 and not for 41-60.