On a wrong-back card, which player should be the one designated?

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Posted By: warshawlaw

Leaf is known to have made wrong-back cards caused by flipping the sheet before printing. If you were going to checklist the card, would you prefer to do so by the front player's name or the back player's name? Would it make any difference to you if the card is from a numbered issue?

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Posted By: leon

front
no

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Posted By: Kevin Cummings

I think these items are intended to be picture cards supplemented by written information and not the other way around.

That being the case, I'd say it gets categorized by the picture regardless of whether it is a numbered set or not.

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Posted By: Ted Zanidakis

The Rule of Thumb for identifying such cards has traditionally
been the front of the card.

I have PlayBalls and Leafs with inverted wrong backs and we
always went by the front when referring to them. In both these
cases the player's name is on the front of the card.

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Posted By: Todd Schultz

that if a card is a wrong back, it is by corollary a right front, and that listing the card by its right or correct side is proper. I suppose you could call a card a "wrong front", in which case the reverse logic would apply, but that seems silly.

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Posted By: identify7

Cards which name one player on the front, but show a different player's picture are generally termed to be the designated player's card (not the shown player). However, if the back is also wrong, (what is the chance of it matching the picture?), that could be an interesting collectable - heck, give me one of those three player cards, with the ghost image of another player, as well.

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Posted By: Glenn

What Todd said.

Incidentally, I have a card that has the wrong front AND back. It's a T205 Cobb but it has Leeford Tannehill's picture and name on the front and Tannehill's info on the back. How weird is that? How much do you think I could get for this rare double error on ebay?

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Posted By: BlackSoxFan

This is similar to asking: Is the tango eggs weaver indeed a weaver card, a tinker card, or both? I would have to say that as that card was intended to be Weaver...then it's weaver. Much in the same, I feel that cards with various backs should be considered by what's on the front of the card.

Regards,

Black Sox Fan

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