Color tinting on 1940 Playball cards.

[paul]

Here is my Stengel.

[Chris-Counts]

These are somewhat controversial. I picked up seven of them about 10 years ago at a San Francisco show. All were commons but Stengel, which I believe is the one posted above. They were in a major dealer's bargain bin and priced at $5 each. I assumed some kid colored them with crayons or watercolors (as did the dealer), but when I got home and looked at them up close, I could see at least some of the color was too precise for that. It wasn't easy getting one graded, but I was successful. PSA turned me down, so I went to SGC. They were resistant, but I convinced them to take one card (the Demaree) back to New Jersey and do whatever it took — even it if meant destroying the card — to prove the color was part of a printing process. A couple months later, I received my card back in an SGC 60 holder marked "color proof."

By the way, every one I've seen so far is a National Leaguer, and I haven't seen a duplicate ...

[jdl7860]

I've seen the OP's card in person and it looks like Randy's example. The color is magenta and is neatly drawn in the jersey piping. It looks printed and not at all like it was added. It is off to PSA though, so no scan available at the moment.

[rgurtowski]

The Mel Ott card graded at a 3 (MK). Guess, I will try SGC.