Caramelo Deportivo Dandridge Variation Survey

[Cat]

Mine says Shortstop.

[dougscats]

I have two of these, Scot, one of each:
an SGC20 that I got from a Net54 member a few years ago, "Shortsotp,"
and an ungraded one that I got on ebay, "Shortstop".

I'll be interested to see the results.

[sreader3]

Cat & Doug, Thanks for these inputs, which have been added to the running tally in the original post. Scot

[ElCabron]

Seriously, none of you have my email address or phone number? Haha. Anyway, your numbers (3 to 1 ratio) seem to be about right in my experience. There are LOTS of little variations like that in this set. I'm always surprised when anyone else cares about them or even notices them.

Caramelo Deportivos with tougher variations are the new T206 rare backs! Right?

-Ryan

Mine has shortsotp

[sreader3]

Ron -- Added your input. Thanks.

Ryan -- Of course I thought of you, but actually I don't have your email or phone number and figured you would respond to the OP if you were inclined (which you now have -- thanks!).

I guess we can ballpark it at about 3 "shortsotp" to 1 "shortstop."

If you are willing to educate us on other Cuban variations you find particularly interesting, we're all ears!

Scot

[ElCabron]

I may have spoken too soon when I quoted 3 to 1. I just checked on scans that I have as well as examples I currently own. The ratio was 13 to 2.

Scot,

There are tons of little variations in various Cuban issues. I find it fascinating, but there hasn't been any kind of premium on the rarer backs, as far as I've notice. But in the case of the Dandridge, shouldn't the "Shortstop" variation at least carry a little bit of a premium? Maybe now it will.

-Ryan