What's the most Odd Ball set you're working on?

[Spike]

Working on the 1921 Universal Toy & Novelty Co. strip sets, which include a portion of W516-1 baseball, boxing, and several non-sport subjects. Here's an example of how the text overlaps in two different ways for the baseball strips.

[Exhibitman]

Originally Posted by Spike

Working on the 1921 Universal Toy & Novelty Co. strip sets, which include a portion of W516-1 baseball, boxing, and several non-sport subjects. Here's an example of how the text overlaps in two different ways for the baseball strips.

Are you going to do a master set of variations or have you chosen a less painful way of killing yourself?

[Gpaal]

I am thinking mine would be the 1967 Dexter Press.

[Piratedogcardshows]

1985 Procards Richmond Braves autographed team set lol!

[tiger8mush]

37 unique of the 126 cards in the set (parallels E121-120, which has 126 poses).

[Bram99]

I am not really going for the set per se, but they are part of some player master sets that I am working on.

Gumball sized cards that were in strips of 13 with many HOF players of both contemporary 1950 times as well as back to early years (Cobb, Ruth, etc.)

[Spike]

Originally Posted by Exhibitman

Are you going to do a master set of variations or have you chosen a less painful way of killing yourself?

The pain tells that I'm still alive! *Hnnnnnggggggggh*

(In serious, I thought the 1921 Universal set would at least be "normal" strip cards without reversed images seen in so many other strip sets to worry about -- and then a friend sent me their Boy Scouts card with reverse-printed Universal © text on the top. So at least one reversed strip made it out of the factory! TBD if any others exist.)

[Clutch-Hitter]

Originally Posted by Spike

The pain tells that I'm still alive! *Hnnnnnggggggggh*

(In serious, I thought the 1921 Universal set would at least be "normal" strip cards without reversed images seen in so many other strip sets to worry about -- and then a friend sent me their Boy Scouts card with reverse-printed Universal © text on the top. So at least one reversed strip made it out of the factory! TBD if any others exist.)

It has been a while since I hunted these but off the top of my head...

They are all w516-1; similar to w515-1 and w515-2. Many of the cards will not have lettering at the top. W516-1 has several paper variations, however the universal cards will be more brown than white. The toughest w516 cards are the w516-1-2; paper is very white like e121s. Grading companies label w516 variations incorrectly more often than not.

I have a lot of these and refer to them this way

W516-1: white or tan paper varon cards 1-10, mostly tan 11-30, easiest
W516-2: universal w516-1s, also includes the school version
W516-3: currently recognized as w516-1-2, toughest in my experience
W516-4: currently w516-2-1
W516-5: w516-2-2, 2nd easiest, except the cicotte no number var
W516-6: w516-2-3, 2nd toughest
Edited to add
W516-7: from the poster, unnumbered; i have only George Burns

Big heads are not part of the w516 set, nor are the boxing big heads part of the w529 set imo. Maybe related to w9316, though I'd have to check my notes to remember why.

[Exhibitman]

Originally Posted by Spike

The pain tells that I'm still alive! *Hnnnnnggggggggh*

(In serious, I thought the 1921 Universal set would at least be "normal" strip cards without reversed images seen in so many other strip sets to worry about -- and then a friend sent me their Boy Scouts card with reverse-printed Universal © text on the top. So at least one reversed strip made it out of the factory! TBD if any others exist.)

Different series. There are several boxing format variations and countless ink and stock variations.

[aljurgela]

Don't really ever expect to finish it... but I will be to closest to doing it...

Right now, I am slightly over 70% done. Here are a few examples:

[paul]

What position did Julian Castillo play? Center?

[aljurgela]

I don't think that he would have caught many balls out there... so you guessed right.... the only place that he could probably play is the 1B (which it does say on the card by the way)... In the 4 games he played against the World Champ A's, he batted .400 (6/15) and had 3 runs scored. Not bad for the "big man"!