I just started checking the SC 150 Factory 649's for print flaws and to see
if they might occur on more than one subject. These are a lot harder to spot than
the Plate scratch and Polar Bear flaws but fortunately there are only 34 subjects.
First I wanted to make sure that most of them are re-occurring flaws.
Here are three different Bresnahan's with the same flaw.
Bresnahan%20649.jpg
Bresnahan%20649%20B.jpg
Bresnahan%20649%20C.jpg
Here's are couple of opposite sheet matches I found.
Bransfield%20-%20Ewing.jpg
Mathewson%20-%20Copy.jpg
The Matty/George Davis combo got me thinking about one of the PD 150
plate scratch sheets. Erick S and I had a discussion about one of the
horizontal slots on the A-B sheet shown here....
Sheet A-B.jpg
The slot in question was the one with Murphy and George Davis.
Sheet [A-B] X.jpg
Erick asked me if Matty should be in that spot instead of Davis and I had told
him that when I was putting this sheet together I was undecided about which
one should be there until I had taken a closer look at all three, Murphy/Davis and Matty.
I only had a blurry scan of the Matty but Murphy and Davis have other marks
that definitely make them a match.
Murphy 2 - Davis, G. 2.jpg
Murphy 2 - Davis, G. 2 - Copy.jpg
Here's a close up of the lower mark on Murphy and Davis.
Davis, G [2] Back - Copy.jpg
Now all of the horizontal positions on the A-B sheet only have (had) two
subjects for each scratch so I put Murphy and Davis together on this sheet.
After finding the Davis/Matty connection on the SC 649's I took another
look at the Matty scan (this is an old scan and I have seen this matty scratch since then but I couldn't find a better scan in my records). Even with the blurry scan
I think this Matty is a match.
Mathewson%20_white%20cap_%201%20%20_Back_ - Copy.jpg
I went through all of my scans again and there are still only two subjects
for each slot with the exception of this one.