Thinking of starting a W554 set

[x2drich2000]

Thank you everyone for your help. I am really leaning toward starting this set now. I imagine the Ruth and Gehrig are going to cost more than other HOFers, any idea how much more? Also, Paul's Ott seems a little different than other Ott's. Notice the Giants text in the lower right. The one on the old Cardboard site (http://www.oldcardboard.com/w/w554/w554gal.asp) and this one that ended on Ebay (http://cgi.ebay.com/1930-W554-Mel-Ot...item33622cd567) do not. Thoughts?

dj

[glchen]

I recently picked this up at the most recent Baggers auction, and it is a sepia W554 with no caption.

[Jaybird]

As long as we're reviving an old thread... got this one on ebay within the last month.

[glchen]

Yea, I revived this thread because earlier Brad said that all sepia's were captioned and all b/w were non-captioned, and wanted to show an exception.

[leftygrove10]

Originally Posted by glchen

Yea, I revived this thread because earlier Brad said that all sepia's were captioned and all b/w were non-captioned, and wanted to show an exception.

Gary:

Do you have sepia captioned and b/w non-captioned images that you can show next to the Gehrig -- preferably from the same camera or scanner that was used to make the Gehrig image above? I want to see the sepia vs black and white differences.

Thanks!

Brad

[glchen]

Brad,

Unfortunately, I don't have a B/W W554. I did also recently pickup a W554 Ruth and Gehrig from ebay with captions, but I sent these to PSA along with the SGC one above. (Basically, I was going to keep the SGC one in its holder, but when I received it, the holder was cracked open during shipping, so I sent it w/ the others to PSA.) I'll post back in a month since it typically takes PSA a month real time for 10 business day submissions. (Note the previous scan was taken from the Baggers auctions, and the ones included here are directly from the ebay auctions.) I do have a 1929 R316 5x7 Gehrig that's B/W that might be able to make a bit of a comparison that I can include.

[glchen]

I've gotten the cards back from PSA, so here are the cards from the same camera. I also have scans if needed from the same scanner. I think the W554's are both sepia, and I've used as a comparison a Kashin 5x7 Photo.