I've seen it discussed more than once here if the portraits and action poses
were grouped together on sheets and from what I have on the plate scratch
sheets I think whoever said that might be right.
As far as the printing goes I don't know if there would be a reason
for them to have them laid out that way maybe Steve B or one of the guy's with printing experience will chime in.
I've narrowed the plate scratch sheets down to four sheets or partial sheets
and they all have the portraits and action poses separated in different groups.
Sheet #1 is a double scratch sheet so there are two front's for this
sheet and all the portraits are grouped together on both ends.
The first sheet 1A has the only missing plate scratch from the #1 sheet on it, this scratch would be a match to
O'Leary portrait who is on the 1B sheet and based on the pattern I think this scratch should be found on a portrait.
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The same back template was used on 1B and the scratches match the back
of 1A. This PD150 sheet is comprised of all Sweet Caporal 150/649 subjects
and contains all of the portraits that are in the subset of 34. Again all of
the portraits are on the ends.
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Sheet #2 is the another sheet that the back plate was used on two sets of fronts.
2A is all action poses. This sheet has 11 of the 150 seies only cards on it (if you count Schulte front view as a 150 only which I do).
0 Sheet 2A.jpg
Sheet 2B is missing three scratches that match subjects from 2A but the rest
are all portraits.
0 Sheet 2B.jpg
Three of the five positions on this sheet match the Wagner strip that was
discovered in his uniform pocket when his house was sold.
I'm hoping one of the missing plate scratches is eventually found on Bowerman and I think the other missing scratch from this section will
be found on the subject that replaced Wagner on this sheet.
Here's a row on this sheet compared to the Wagner strip.
#2 sheet Wagner strip.jpg
Here are a few examples of the matching pair scratches from this sheet.
All the scratches have a portrait with the exact scratch on an action pose
that matches it.
0 Ames-Walsh.jpg0 Evers-Willis.jpg
0 Stone-Doyle.jpg
Sheet #3 has four portraits and the plate scratches put them all together
in the middle of this sheet.
0 Sheet 3.jpg
Sheet #4 puzzles me. I think it's definitely a partial sheet but I haven't been
able to link it to any of the other sheets. I don't know if the scratche(s) end
abruptly with Kleinow or if I just haven't found the other scratches which
would be odd because I have seen several examples for each subject of
the scratches on this sheet.
This partial sheet is all action poses.
0 Sheet 4.jpg
I'm pretty sure that this sheet ends with Oldring on the left because I've seen
three Oldrings with this scratch and a big corner crop.
Here's two of the Oldring Crops with the same scratch.
Oldring Crop Marks.jpg
I think this is quite a lot of evidence that the portraits and action poses
could have been grouped together.
Check your Bowermans it would be great if we could find one with this scratch.
Pattee.jpg
Or one that matches the Wagner position, I'm thinking it could be Doc White
portrait.
Reulbach%20Back_1.jpg