W555 scan request

[phlflyer1]

Spec,

Thanks so much for taking the time to scan those two cards in and for sharing them with us.

Those two were on my want list for many years when I was collecting the set and I am just happy to see the scans and know that they actually exist!

Makes me wish I was still collecting the set

Here is something else I can share about W555 from my years of collecting it. I have found the Pastorious card both with and without a comma separating the players name and team.

Normally all W555s have the comma between the players name and team but I've found two examples of the Pastorious without the comma so I'd say it is a legit variation within the set (not that too many people would care since the set is so tough to consider attempting anyway).

One more thing to add about the Pastorious variation is that there is a slight difference in the cropping of the image between the example with comma and the ones without.

The left side of the uniform in the example with the comma goes right to the edge of the black border on the left while there is some slight space between the black border and the left side of the uniform on the examples without the comma.

The difference in cropping of W555 images is something that Tom Papa alerted me to on some other players from the set and is visible in some of the scans he posted earlier in this thread. It seems like at some point after several printing runs it was decided to change, ever so slightly, how many of the images were cropped within the set.