34 Goudey variation 1/1?

[brianp-beme]

I copied and saved and cropped and reduced the image size, which I think makes it clearer. I still don't think the card looks like this due to fading, and I can't imagine the blue at the bottom would still be so bold if the sun had supposedly leached out the yellow background to the point of it being white.

I have posted that 14 year old photo again because it provides a nice, less glare image (curse those plastic slabs, and even those card sleeves) and provides a fair contrast of the white background to the cards typical yellow background. In my eyes the blue in the white background version (bottom, uniform lettering, and even perhaps the hat) appears darker than the blue in the regular yellow background card example shown.

Brian (by the way, not my thumbnails nor fingers)

[obcmac]

Missing color passes are like t206 wagners...not genuine unless proven otherwise (to me). Sun, water, chemicals, age...all impact pigments differently. It's much more likely on any "missing color" card that it has some after issue damage. Having never seen a goudey that missed a color pass and having seen hundreds of cards where something impacted one or more colors, I tend to think it's probably the latter rather than the former. Not to say it isn't a curiosity...and I hope you enjoy it.

[bnorth]

This is a real missing yellow card. See how the rest of the colors still pop. They are not dull in any way. It is actually one of the best looking most vibrantly colored version of this card I have seen. It is amazing looking in hand. Also with a top lighted microscope you will still find yellow on a real missing yellow and faded card. The faded card will have dull dirty looking yellow. The real missing yellow card can and usually will have a very small amount of yellow but it will be a bright shiny yellow.

[tireolddawg]

I enjoy hearing everyone’s opinions and thoughts. I decided to snag a cheap decent looking raw copy off of eBay to run some experiments. Will update with relevant results in the future if there are any.