1920 W519 - Cravath #18 Variation Confirmation

[z28jd]

Originally Posted by h2oya311

Interestingly, the unnumbered card shows him as "Gabby Cravath". His real name is Gavvy Cravath. This variation below lists him as "Gobby Cravath". I'm not sure if the standard Cravath W519 #3 has this same mistake (Gobby vs Gabby vs Gavvy).

His real name is actually Clifford Carlton Cravath

Cool find, hope you get the answer you're looking for. I have a handful of strip cards, maybe 50 or so, but I bought almost all of them in two lots real cheap and never really looked into the sets

[novakjr]

Great find Derek. love the blue numbered ones. I'm still excited about finally landing the Frisch earlier this year.

[aelefson]

Hi-
I have no idea if this helps at all, but I had a Gobby Cravath with a different number on it several years ago. I sold it to a dealer on Cape Cod and unfortunately, I never kept a scan. I posted it when I found it, but I used the temporary picture hosting option on the old Net54, so the scan no longer appears. Here is my thread where FKW in particular provides very detailed information. Nice find!

http://www.net54baseball.com/showthr...=cravath+strip
Alan

[glchen]

Here's my W519 Cravath run (technically, I guess I need the W521 also). Unfortunately, for my Type 2 copy, it's very unclear what the second letter is, but it seems to be more like an "A" then the "O."

[MMarvelli]

My W519-N2 Gabby Cravath

W519-N-2 Gravath, Gabby F only.jpg

[sreader3]

Derek,

Great card. Many of us are interested but have little to add. Keep us posted on new developments!

Scot Reader

Edited to add: i also thought the E121 Meadows discovery was amazing.

[pclpads]

Gavvy had a successful post baseball career. He got into real estate in CA and became a judge in Laguna Beach, where he passed in the early '60's. Fared much better than a lot of his contemporaries. He has an interesting write up on Wikipedia. I believe he was the first major leaguer from the greater San Diego area, being a native of Escondido, CA.

[Leon]

My only Gabby is unnumbered but at least has a wet sheet transfer on back....

I like Gary's ambiguous "A/O" in Gavvy...

[h2oya311]

Originally Posted by glchen

Here's my W519 Cravath run (technically, I guess I need the W521 also). Unfortunately, for my Type 2 copy, it's very unclear what the second letter is, but it seems to be more like an "A" then the "O."

Nice Gary...I was aware of your E107 collection, but never knew you had such an extensive Cravath Strip Card collection. You've been holding out on us!!

So it looks like the "Gobby" is new info, but #18 was already known/confirmed. It's debatable whether yours shows Gabby vs Gobby. I think my example makes it obvious.

Thanks for chiming in everyone.

[glchen]

Originally Posted by h2oya311

Nice Gary...I was aware of your E107 collection, but never knew you had such an extensive Cravath Strip Card collection. You've been holding out on us!!

So it looks like the "Gobby" is new info, but #18 was already known/confirmed. It's debatable whether yours shows Gabby vs Gobby. I think my example makes it obvious.

Thanks for chiming in everyone.

Thanks, Derek, but I think that's Gary P. w/ the incredible E107 collection. I've never owned one yet, but hope to one day. I think my T2 is a Gabby, so I think you have an "error" card. Maybe they corrected the spelling in later releases.