T205 Hoffman Variation

[bn2cardz]

Originally Posted by Wite3

Damn! This is one of the last variations I was collecting off the grid...

So, here is what I know so far...it appears it was a problem on the sweet cap black sheets. I know Dean's Cards has one that is a black 25 and I have seen 42 as well. I have seen stripes that are more yellow fading to almost invisible.

Joe's Vintage has a 25 Black with no stripe...

I will try to pull out my binder and check later today (I think I have around 15-20 Hoffmans currently).

Joshua

Obviously my research just began the last couple of days but until you pointed out the Dean's I hadn't found a back scan of one that wasn't a 42. So it is interesting to me that it does run through two backs and doesn't cover every card with that back (Like the Mathewson 1 loss on all cycle).

[peterb69]

Cool Find

[bn2cardz]

I just got around to scanning mine. It is a sweet cap black 25.

[bn2cardz]

I just noticed that Hoffman also comes with a yellow second base or white second base. Does anyone have info on which is rarer? On a quick perusing of a few of the card target photos it seems like a 50/50.