Easily the most popular of all the 1920s strip card sets, the W514 set of 1919-21 features a large checklist of 120 players. Issued in 10-card strips, they were meant to be cut along dotted lines, separating each card. The result - as with many strip cards - is a host of off-condition cards that were often torn rather than carefully cut. As a result, miscuts and poorly-shorn borders are common condition flaws. The flimsy paper on which the cards were printed is also an issue, making high-grade examples very difficult to obtain. 

Brooklyn's Ivan "Ivy" Olson is the subject of this hand cut example which has been graded Authentic by SGC due to a wet sheet transfer on the card's reverse. The print on the reverse has the black, blue, and red layers, leaving only the orange and peach layers from creating a fully realized mirror image of the card on the back. Forgetting that, though, the front of the card presents beautifully, with wonderful corners and edges, especially for a hand cut card.

A slight registration error in the orange layer drops the background down a smidge from where it's supposed to be, but other than that, the front looks as nice as one could reasonably expect a strip card to look. A tremendous example of "buy the card, not the grade."

SGC has only ever graded 10 total examples of this W514, with only eight receiving a higher grade than the Authentic offered here of Ivan "Ivy" Olson.