New print date for W560??? —1930–

[nebboy]

When I saw the w560 two color card for Kiki Cuyler I was looking forward cheap CUBs HOF card for my PC. But then noticed the back of the card with advertising back, my 1st thought was a reprint, fake or at least a cutout from a hobby publication. So I checked sellers other listings and behold 2 other cards with print and as you can see one has a October/November 1930 date. I wanted to get them in hand to compare with another Rogers Hornsby w560 I own and they do check out.

Here a link to another Net54 thread talking about the fact the Standard Catalog had for many years listed W560s as 1927 but the earliest the could possibly be printed is 1929 because of players that had not changed team until the late 1928 or 29 seasons.

https://www.net54baseball.com/showth...highlight=w560

1) Would like to hear your thoughts and ideas. The focus has been when is the earliest possible print date. Maybe now we know the actual date or at least the latest date.
2) If the cards were used as a raffle prize and then thrown out be the by the show promoter why we haven’t seen other promotional backed W560s. Could also account for the rarity of the 2 color versions or why some cards have low slab counts.

The card nerd in me loves little mysteries and informative finds.