T206 Walter Johnson Back

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Posted By: Matt

Walter Johnson's own T206 arrived today along with a nice letter of provenance from his grandson. While the value to me is entirely because it was his own card that he kept, the back of the card is intriguing as well.

WoJo pasted the card into his scrapbook before 1914 and it was torn out much more recently. On the back of the card, a newspaper article (seemingly from the other side of the scrapbook page) can be seen at the top and the majority of the back is covered by glued on paper (probably the scrapbook page). However, at the bottom of the card and up along the right edge, the clean back of the card can be seen with some thin glue residue.

As I've never owned a blank backed T206, I'm interested on some feedback whether or not the card could have originally been blank backed.

Here is a high res back scan; it sits in a PSA case: