Are These W560's?

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Posted By: Jon Canfield

I bought these two sheets of strip cards tonight on eBay that I had been watching for a few days. My question is - are they W560's? Some appears to be, but others, like the Ruth, don't appear to be 560's. Any ideas? The sheets are supposedly approx. 7.5*10 in size



PS - Sorry Leon - my snipe must have been set later than yours.

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Posted By: Adam J. Baxter

I have an example of the Richard Byrd that I picked up from Mark MaCrae last year. The Ruth with Jokers pops up on Ebay from time to time.

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Posted By: fkw

They are W560's and you have the scarcer Red & Black versions. The W560's came in 3 types, one is printed in only black, the next is only red, and the 3rd and scarcest is printed in both black and red. Nice pickup.

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Posted By: Jon Canfield

Thanks for the info guys! Frank, is there anything else you can tell me about them? I was surprised to see a sheet so large in size. I don't normally buy strip cards and know nothing about them, but I was under the impression strip sheets are usually 5-6 cards long, not full sheets?

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Posted By: Brad Green

Frank:

The three variations of W560's that you mentioned apply only to the hearts and diamonds, right? Lefty Grove's W560 (a club) comes in at least three variations (shown below), but different than what you talked about for the hearts and diamonds.

Brad

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Posted By: fkw

It looks that way. I have a group of 30 that I just went through and on the single color ones only the Hearts and Diamonds are red, the Clubs and Spades are black. On the red and black printed ones the photo area is red and rest of card is black on the Spades and Clubs. While the photo area is black and the rest of card red on the Hearts and Diamonds cards.