Hi Scott
No problem with Spade. I should have said that the Spade card is possibly a key card to the equation.
Tim and others have done some great work on this subject and I agree with some of their research and theories.
So lets put Spade on the back burner for awhile
Maybe Bender (port.) is a better example. We have seen a Bender (port.) with a Delehanty (Wash.) name on the top. So going by the sheet shown on T206Resource, Bender would be the subject on the bottom of a column and Delehanty would be above. No problem there until you account for a Bradley (port.) being found with a Bender (port.) name on top of the card. Keep in mind both cards have the exact same back which is Piedmont 150 f#25.
Some of the questions I have and I'm not directing them at any one particular board member, just in general.
If we go with the column theory, then that would make Bradley (port.) the bottom card with Bender (port.) above him and Delehanty (Wash.) on top of the column. Three players to a column.(?)
Or did one of these three cards change position on a sheet during production?
Going out on a limb for a minute. Is it possible that T206 sheets were configured similar to the uncut Obak sheet?
When I first saw the uncut Obak sheet I thought it contained no pattern, but the more I looked at it, I noticed how this sheet contained similarities to miscut T206s.
Some Obak subjects are directly above themselves in some columns while other columns contain the same players, but their sequence is a skip position pattern.
If this pattern was used on a T206 sheet it could explain why some miscut T206s have two same name cards and two different name cards.
Take for instance Buck Weaver on the Obak sheet. If that sheet was miscut then Weaver's name could appear on two other player's card, while the players on the left side of the sheet could have their own name appear twice on a card.
Could it be that Bradley (port.), Bender (port.) and Delehanty (Wash.) were in a skip position column?
This could also explain why Cicotte's name appears above both Spade's and Abbaticchio's card. The sheet number on Spade and other examples could just give us a starting point since they could be the middle sheet subject.
Any of your thoughts are welcome.
Jantz