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Originally Posted by samosa4u
Ted,
1st
You stated that the 5th series are tough because Bowman was in a hurry to get out the 6th (and last) series, so they rushed the 5th series. Did Bowman regularly do this with their other sets as well?
2nd
You also mentioned that the cards from 1948 - 52 were printed on a 38-inch (track width) press. Is this a five-color press you're talking about or was it a smaller one? I know that Zabel Bros. had many presses in their plant. They would use the big presses for the bigger jobs and small presses for smaller jobs. Back then, they did not have the technology to print on both sides of the sheet at the same time. After printing the fronts, they would then move the sheets to a smaller press to print the backs.
Oh, and I never knew the PCL cards existed! Very cool!
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samosa4u
1st…..The first Series (cards #1 - 72) in the 1950 BOWMAN set are more difficult to find than the rest of the 180 cards in this set. So, this may be another example.
2nd…..The larger BOWMAN cards (1953 - 1955 sets) were printed using a 43-inch (track width) press.
The printing of all the BOWMAN Sportscards was done using a 4-color process.
TED Z
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