I found a new scratch in the row of the upper scratch on my template. It's
a Criger in the Criger/Davis slot.
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It's a slow process because these are difficult to find. For example
all of these scratches are harder to find than a Mur'ay, nodgrass "error" ect...
and Criger/Davis is a good example to explain why.

They call them errors but they're not, it was caused by something that interfered with a letter in one of the positions for that subject on the sheet.

There is a Davis that is missing a letter like the "errors" that have been
catalogued. It's missing part of the R in AMER so it looks like AMEP.
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This Davis also happens to be one of the plate scratches.
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Davis and Criger occupy the same positions on this sheet.
Here is the Criger with the same scratch as the Davis "AMEP".
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So to start with there is the difficulty of finding these at about the same rate
as the "error" cards and there are a few other things to factor in. The
scans have to be good enough to show the sratches and the ink in the
area of the scratch has to be dark enough.

It also has to be a Piedmont 150 back, most of the "error" cards are found
on other backs with the exception of Dopner which has only been found on a
Polar Bear back so far. I don't think a Dopner will be found any other back
because in my opinion the Polar Bears were printed separate from all the other backs.

Here are a couple of Davis Amep's with a SC150/649 back.
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Here is a high resolution scan of the Davis "Amep" and Criger scratch. The top one is Davis and the bottom one is Criger.
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Quite a few collectors say the hunt is the most fun and it is for me too.
I get a lot of enjoyment out of searching for and finding these.

Great research, Pat!! I remember doing some minutia collecting in my type card days.

I'm bumping this thread for two cards that relate to this sheet that I feel very fortunate to find and even better to have had the opportunity to purchase them.

The cards are these two specific Conroy and Williams cards.

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I already have most of the plate scratches on this sheet including these two cards.

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What's exciting about the new pair is I have very little doubt that they were on the same specific sheet together.

They have identical off center left to right and top to bottom miscuts

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I usually remove all of my plate scratches from the holders but I think it's cool that they have consecutive cert numbers and these two specific cards were printed next to each other 114 years ago.

They even have identical defects that i circled from a chip in the cutting blade.

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Wow Pat. That’s incredible. Separated at birth and reunited over 110 years later. So cool. Thank you for sharing.

My stars, this is amazing.

wow wow wow

incredible stuff, Pat

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Amazing labor of love. Well done, Pat! Trent King

Sonny, Kevin, James, and Trent, thank you.

With the image size restrictions I was never able to post a large enough image of the full sheet that would show all the scratches and how they line up.

This is an image I made from the actual scratches that I have.

Apologies in advance for the huge image.

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This whole thread is just incredibly cool. Love the incredible minutiae and ability to pick up a good chunk of these cards.

Major props on this entire endeavor.

Thank you CJ. I'm going to post scans of all of the pairs from the primary scratch in this thread.

Starting from left to right on the back here's Griffith and Turner

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