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Ed McCollumit makes you wonder how many cards were on a sheet at the time of printing?
The Wagner proof has five cards running across, right? (bad memory here). So you would think the sheet size would have to be divisible by 5. 26 doesn't cut it. 35 does (seven rows of five).
But multiples on a single sheet of Konetchy, O'Leary, Reulback, Snodgrass, Sweeney and Willis to get to a magic number divisible by 5? And only one sheet printed or surviving? No way.
Like Scot says "All this is not to mention the significant obstacles to survival posed in the near-century bridging original distribution with the present day. These include the passing of several generations of T206 owners, countless moves, harsh storage conditions and World War II paper drives, to name just a few."
Following Darwin's theory, the Broad Leaf 460 must have been the weakest.