John,
I just re-read your statement: “I guess this Bowerman was next to all the other machine or non-handcut cut Piedmont Wagner’s we have floating around.”
I want to point out one important fact that escaped you – and that has great import with regard to assigning a percentage chance that the card contains a partial Wagner.
It has been stated, that Wagner cards - WERE PRINTED AND THEN DESTROYED.
So it is Not that only 50-100 Wagners were printed. Indeed Wagners may have been printed for weeks/months. There may have been thousands or tens of thousands. Given the speed of communication at that time, this may in fact be likely.
It appears that to avoid legal action, the company ordered that the Wagners be “destroyed”.
But the Bowermans, that may have been printed next to Wagner, were not destroyed.
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