Variations in W516-1 set

[marcdelpercio]

Thanks to everyone for the updated input. If you have both variations in hand, you can easily see that they are printed entirely differently, rather than just missing a color pass or something along those lines.

Doug, that's interesting that somebody else was aware of the different paper stocks. I did quite a bit of searching before I posted this thread and found no mention of it anywhere. I realize that the strip card sets are not nearly as widely collected and studied as many other major sets of the era but I would have thought that a major difference like this would have at least been noted.

I imagine that with the wide variety of subcategories of the W516 family of cards, there were probably multiple different printing processes and distribution methods.