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Originally Posted by mybuddyinc
Maybe I'm reading this wrong, but it seems backwards to me. In my thinking  it would fit better that the StL variations would have been done in the 1st press run of PB's circa Spring/Summer of 1910, when both players still might have been with StL. By the second PB run, about Summer 1910, both were in EL.
Also "if" they were from the 350/460 there would be more of them, if theory that 350/460 were produced in greater quantities.
As far as "How Many ??", don't know. It might be interesting to compare the 350 vs 350/460 run numbers. Maybe comparing the number of F. Smith or Kleinow, catching, 350 vs. 350/460.  |
1st......My "timeline" regarding the 1st printing of the POLAR BEAR backs on the 350-only Series cards may be somewhat off (this press run may have occurred earlier).
Whatever. But, the lesser quantity of PB cards (approx. 50 per subject) that were printed of the 350-only Series makes it improbable for the Demmitt & O'Hara St Louis
variations to belong in this print group.
The numbers of PB cards (150+ per subject) that were printed of many of the 350/460 Series guys closely coincides with the numbers of St. Louis versions of Demmitt
or O'Hara cards that are known.
2nd......Furthermore, in the subsequent printing of the T213-2 set (1914-16), both the Demmitt (New York) image and the Demmitt (St Louis) images were printed in
it. The production of this set utilized sheets printed originally in the T206 set. Therefore, I really doubt that both these Demmitt images were on the same sheet in the
same press run.
TED Z
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