The Magie - Doyle Error vs Variation Caper

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Posted By: Joe P.

Hankron:
"The problem with old baseball cards and similar, it's often impossible to determine which example came first, what changes where intentional and why. In these grey or unknowable cases, the hobby often comes up with its own definitions and conceits"
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What you say may be true about variations, but we are talking about obvious errors here.
The misspelling of a name, and a wrong league designation being the other.
It is also obvious that the error comes first, and it's all a question of how fast they catch it and correct it.
By the way, technically speaking, the so called corrected card of Slow Joe Doyle could easily fall into the category of an error.
Just like in baseball, one can commit an error, or make an error of omission.
Musically speaking, I guess we can call that a Fugue.

I've stated that I've set type and worked a printing press.
It only takes seconds to change the league designation from Nat'l to Amer.
What they did was retrieve the type and got rid of the Nat'l without replacing it with the Amer.
Why, I'll never know.
They got rid of the smoking gun, and left Slow Joe without a league.
If you look at Slow Joe's card, it's the only card in the whole T206 set that looks off balance.
Doyle N.Y.

Stay tuned,
Joe P.