Is one of these fake?

orioles93

I was looking at 1939 Play Ball Ott cards and I saw this PSA 8 and it looked funny to me. What is up with the border around the picture? The border is much thicker on the PSA 8 than the PSA 3. Is one of them fake, or did these cards have a variance in border thickness? The picture on the PSA 8 also looks to be cut off, less of the hat is showing.

PSA 8

PSA 3

KbKards

That's due to the 2 variations of the Ott card and many of the other low numbers. If you ask for scans of the back, they'll be different, with the name at the top either all in caps or mixed upper and lower case. Both cards are real.

AUPT

Since Ott was one of the cards that could be found with the name on back either in all caps or in upper- and lower-case, indicating at least two print runs, I'd guess that these two cards are one of each variety, and probably "normal" for that variety.

Four minutes too late!

fkw

thanks for posting this, I never knew there were cropping differences on the front of the R334 cards that had the caption (upper & upper/lowercase) variations. Wonder if the other players with the 2 back vaiations had such noticeable cropping differences on front???...
reminds me a bit of the M116 cards with the large projection small project variations on front, they were also because of different print runs

PS. It looks like the only reason the border is larger is because the image is slightly cropped (top of hat), .....not trimming