One of the more popular of the "W" cards, the W517 strip cards are found in 2 types.
The W517-1 Large Strip Cards are the more common of the 2 types. The Large cards are roughly 3" by 4" in size, numbered within the photo on front and are usually found in a sepia color, but other colors like B&W, blue, purple, green, and red do exist, with green and red the scarcest. The Large W517-1 cards were originally sold in virtical strips of 3 in a box that said "Champion Draw". Some strips/cards will have a color bar at the bottom of the back (prize), and some have game plays printed at the top ie. "Strike Out". Two cards can be found without a number on front (Vance, P.Waner) and are fairly rare compared to the numbered cards. There are 54 cards in the set.
The W517-2 Mini Strip Cards are far scarcer of the 2 types. The Mini cards are roughly 1.75" by 2.75" in size, are unnumbered and come in many different brighter colors. The Mini W517-2 cards were also originally sold in vertical strips, but also seen in a slightly smoother stock 4 photos per postcard size card similar to an Exhibit card, these are almost always found cut into individual cards as well. The rare postcards (3 different known) are listed in some catalogs as "1929" but there is proof they were issued ca.1931. There are 54 different cards in the W517-1 Large set, but only 16 different have been seen in the W517-2 Mini form (Cochrane, Collins, Critz, Donahue, Gehrig, Grove, Jackson, Judge, Kamm, Kelly, Klein, Miller, O'Doul, Shire, Vance, P.Waner). |
