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t206 Shappe ???
Posted By: Martin Neal
I would love to hear the board thinks on this one. I purchased this card in a group of six thinking that there was a pretty good chance it may be T206 Shappe or a variation of that card. I can't swear to it but I think I saw a card just like this one a couple of years ago on Ebay. |
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t206 Shappe ???
Posted By: Dave
Here's a picture of a normal Sharpe. It looks to me that your card has been marked. I'd guess that there was some paper loss on the R, and someone wrote on the card in an attempt to add the "leg" of the R. |
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t206 Shappe ???
Posted By: Joe D.
Looks to me like somebody really tried to turn an R into a P. |
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t206 Shappe ???
Posted By: davidcycleback
I think someone sneezed on the R. |
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t206 Shappe ???
Posted By: Martin Neal
Thanks for the responses. I have a graded Shappe which I will scan with this card next week along with a regular Sharpe. My thinking (or hoping!) on this card is that the defect which caused the Shappe variation may have happened on this particular card or at least to a limited number of Sharpes. I don't know enough about the T206 printing process to guess what may have caused the printing defect. It seems to me that I saw this particular defect a couple of years ago (I have religiously examined every Sharpe card on Ebay for the last 4 years) and was hoping someone else on the board had either purchased that card or had seen it. |
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t206 Shappe ???
Posted By: davidcycleback
Martin, it would be very difficult for someone to remove via liquid solvent a small portion of ink from a baseball card. Even if you put the correct solvent on the part of the ink, the ink doesn't vanish on it's own. The solvent essentially loosens the ink and you then have to remove the ink by tool. I've removed ink this way in a lab, and it's not easy. In theory it's simple, but in practice it's hard. Also, the types of solvents a chemist would use would not leave a grease-like stain behind, but would dry invisible. That's why it may be that the the Sharpe stain is just a stain, and is not from someone trying to remove the ink. |
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t206 Shappe ???
Posted By: fkw
To me it looks like is might have been a Shappe originally, but then someone came along long ago and made an "R" with an ink pen out of the first "P". With this attempt it made the card less in demand because of this doctoring of the original caption. |
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t206 Shappe ???
Posted By: Martin Neal
Thanks again for all the comments. I will keep this card just in case someone finds a similar Sharpe or Shappe. It would be interesting to me to compare the two. The card I have is probably a card that someone tried to convert to a Shappe. Frank, I like the color variations better than the Shappe, Murr'y and nodgrass too, but then again, it sure is fun to find one. |
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t206 Shappe ???
Posted By: bigfish
Martin, |
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