New print date for W560??? —1930–

[nebboy]

When I saw the w560 two color card for Kiki Cuyler I was looking forward cheap CUBs HOF card for my PC. But then noticed the back of the card with advertising back, my 1st thought was a reprint, fake or at least a cutout from a hobby publication. So I checked sellers other listings and behold 2 other cards with print and as you can see one has a October/November 1930 date. I wanted to get them in hand to compare with another Rogers Hornsby w560 I own and they do check out.

Here a link to another Net54 thread talking about the fact the Standard Catalog had for many years listed W560s as 1927 but the earliest the could possibly be printed is 1929 because of players that had not changed team until the late 1928 or 29 seasons.

https://www.net54baseball.com/showth...highlight=w560

1) Would like to hear your thoughts and ideas. The focus has been when is the earliest possible print date. Maybe now we know the actual date or at least the latest date.
2) If the cards were used as a raffle prize and then thrown out be the by the show promoter why we haven’t seen other promotional backed W560s. Could also account for the rarity of the 2 color versions or why some cards have low slab counts.

The card nerd in me loves little mysteries and informative finds.

[nebboy]

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[CobbSpikedMe]

Hey John,

Not much to add other than I agree the 1929 release date for these is likely accurate, like you said, due to the team changes and dates involved. But, I really just wanted to say that these are awesome examples! I've never seen these backs before on W560.




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[nebboy]

One thought I had was printer of this had a quantity of them on hand unsold, and was able convince show promotion people to use these by running a quantity of promotional back print raffle entries to give to young boy so they would convince their moms to go to Pure Food Show. Seems like a win win for the printer.

Anyone else have or ever remember seeing a W560 with a promotional back ad?

[nebboy]

I’ve been watching w560 cards for about 10 months - as yet I’ve found out no more examples of an ad back card or info only the event Pure Food Show.

Anyone have knowledge of this issue with add back?

Bump

[brianp-beme]

John, yours are the only W560 cards with anything but a blank back that I have seen (while casually checking W560's over the decades). Great find...I missed this thread previously.

My guess is the Newark Centre Market had a whole mess of W560 strips hanging around and they thought that adding advertising to the backs would be a great way to attract attention to their event. Definitely falls within the updated 1929 or later time frame for these cards.

Brian