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Posted By: Frank Wakefield

Thanks, Chris, for the fancy image work.


So Ted, others....

Is this correct?

1 - American Beauty cards were the first of the 4 ABCD's to be printed and distributed.

2 - Broad Leaf cards (2 separate words) are not of normal width, nor are they as slender as American Beauty cards; AB's are 1/16th of an inch skinnier, and BL's 1/32nd of an inch skinnier, than normal cards. I think this from that other Broad Leaf thread, personal observation, and the scan above Chris provided. I suggest that a lack of awareness of this odd dimension would be why SGC has graded several as 'Authentic', when in fact they really weren't trimmed.

3 - The printing sequence was AB 350 w/o frame, AB 350 w/ frame, Cycle 350, BL 350, Drum 350, AB 460, Cycle 460, BL 460.

4 - I speculate that the sequence above ended before Drum 460s would have been issued, hence there are none.


I'm just guessing and wondering about these 4 points. Comments?