Differences between W515-1 and W515-2

[glchen]

Looking at Paul's complete W515-2 set that he posted here: Link, there are many cards that do not follow rule #4 on where the @U&U copyright symbol is. That is, for these W515-2 cards, the symbol is not above the top border, but is instead at a position similar to where it is on the W515-1. Basically, rule #4 only holds for cards #1-40. For cards #41-60, the W515-2 also has the copyright symbol at a similar place to the W515-1's. And there are some cards (e.g., the #47 Babe Ruth card) where the copyright symbol does not exist anywhere on the card for both the W515-1 and the W515-2 sets.

[h2oya311]

Thanks for the investigative work, Gary. I'll keep this post handy for any future W515-X's I pick up.

[T206Collector]

There is also a key to finding the differences in the use of yellow. For instance, the first 20 cards in the W515-2 set are awash in yellow. This is really apparent when you lay all of the cards out as I did in the other post about finishing the set. My Aaron Ward is a great example. How can you tell that it's a W515-2 and not a W515-2? You can't look to the borders, which are gone as it is heavily trimmed. But check out the yellow in his shoulders and up the middle of his jersey with the buttons. You don't see that use of yellow in the W515-1s. (Of course the different location of the copyright helps, too!)



I think you can also see that difference in WaJo's cap in the post above. The W515-2 has some yellow in it. Not so the W515-1.

[glchen]

Thanks for the input, Paul. I've put the images that Paul has above for #19 Aaron Ward to make it easier for everyone to compare (not to scale). The W515-1 is on the left, and the W515-2 from Paul's set in on the right. As you can see, the W515-2 has yellowing on the shoulders and cap area as well as other parts of the card, which aren't on the W515-1.

[glchen]

I will try to go through the list of cards #41-60 (using Paul's set for the W515-2) and show the differences for each card to distinguish W515-1 from W515-2. I will try to use the easiest distinguishing factors although there will usually be several differences, and I will not go through them all. You can look at the scans for more details. The W515-1 scan will always be on the left and the W515-2 will be on the right. The scans for each card are not to scale, so please do not compare the sizes of the W515-1 to the W515-2 that I am showing.

#41 Jim Johnston - on the W515-1, the copyright is on the lower right. On the W515-2, the copyright is on the lower left side.

[glchen]

#42 Willie Kamm - the copyright is on roughly the same place on both cards, so you can't really use it for this card. If you have the top border, you will notice there is much more space between the top of the head and the top border on the W515-2 than the W515-1. If you don't have the top border, then if you have the right border, you will notice that the second set of vertical lines near the bottom right corner touches the right border on the W515-1, but they don't touch the right border on the W515-2.

[glchen]

#43 Sam Jones - the copyright is on the bottom right corner for the W515-1 and more towards the bottom left corner for the W515-2