Why the T205 Portrait Variations?

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Posted By: Don

Ok, here's what I belive is correct as far as I know. And keep in mind, I'm a T205 novice so I'm probably summing up stuff you guys have already memorized.

We have 220 cards in a "complete" set.

12 are what I would call print variations. No lines, crossed T's, extended frame, red vs white logo, etc. The front print variations might have some significance regarding print runs.

8 are actually differnt portraits of the same player.

This leaves exactly 200 cards figuring one for each player. Not sure if that's of any significance or not.

Also, there are 15 short prints. Again, not sure why and/or if it's tied into the reason for portrait variations and print runs.

Just summing up.

Now, just a casual inventory of all the portraits would lead me to believe there were at least 2 artists working on these.

I wonder if the print runs were all of one artist and maybe there was some unintentional duplication.

Just throwing all that out there for further discussion.