Decoding the “why” of 1948/1949 Leaf Sets

[G1911]

Going through my archive now for anything else that might be useful to Leaf researchers. This Chalky Wright is not mine. Weird, even for a Leaf. Not sure I've seen another one in any of the sets quite like it. The others errors are also not mine; I only own the white pants Sullivan out of all these.

2 copies of the sheet shown as well, also not mine. The numbering is largely in order vertically down a column.

[yanks87]

Originally Posted by G1911

Going through my archive now for anything else that might be useful to Leaf researchers. This Chalky Wright is not mine. Weird, even for a Leaf. Not sure I've seen another one in any of the sets quite like it. The others errors are also not mine; I only own the white pants Sullivan out of all these.

2 copies of the sheet shown as well, also not mine. The numbering is largely in order vertically down a column.

That's a whole lot of fun. Errors are amazing, just an example of the "anything goes" approach to printing. All of those overprints are flipped, they had the red and blue plates right, then flipped the sheet for the black hit, love it. Chalky Wright is missing his black plate, but looks to be early on in the print run as that red is SATURATED! This is all great materials to have, as I had said before, I am just getting into the boxing, and I had hoped it would have been the easy one, but alas, Leaf Printing is synonymous with lack of Quality Control!

[G1911]

And here's all of the Graziano's that have publicly available images (as far as I have found). This is the marque card in the boxing hobby, but I am rather suspicious of it. It does not look like the other cards; a much more detailed and colorful picture of him than any other subject. It looks like one of those homemade cards where a different picture type is laid onto a Leaf design. I'm not saying it's a later creation or fake or not period, but I doubt it was just a normal card quickly pulled from the sheet over legal issues. It really doesn't look right.

Perhaps I shouldn't question it; the Graziano being the hyper marquee card in the hobby leaves the other great short prints cheaper for me