While almost everything about this card is debatable (year, whether
or not it's self-developing or even a strip card) what's not debatable
is that they are real photos, they are tiny measuring about 3/4" x 1
1/2" and cool! These are super rare and the checklist before this recent
find only had 15 cards on it. Between this find adding 6 to the
checklist, and the publicity generated by the find unearthing yet
another example, the checklist now stands at 22!
The Wheat is another HOF'er that is newly added to the checklist from this find and is obviously the only slabbed example. All of these cards were carefully, mechanically (no water
or
solvents) removed from a black album page. We cut out around the card
first and then slowly teased off as much black paper as we could without
damaging the back of the card.
This one is significantly smaller than the others and likely trimmed. Otherwise it has light surface issues.
UPDATE 11/21: Our information on populations and new additions to this set were based on the best publicly available information. Since this auction started we have been sent a digital image of another raw Zach Wheat card. In all likelihood there are two of these, though again it is a new addition to the accepted checklist as the other owner has never previously shared the information.