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Originally Posted by Pat R
There are hundreds of changes that could have been made in the set that were not made. I think the few changes that were made were because of timing and convenience, I don't think they would have stopped the printing to make new plates or change a color. I think most people forget that they were a premium and not a Bowman, Leaf or Topps set.
I also think some of the changes weren't really changes at all and were the results of different plates and printing presses used at different American Lithograph facility's.
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I pretty much agree.
I missed that AB460 and Brown Lenox are probably mutually exclusive, so the two presses idea is almost for certain out.
The question then is why the print run was so small?
I can see ALC distributing the transfers to lay out the plates to different facilities, or just the original art, which would explain some of the differences between series and even the ones within series.
But the effort involved for a cheap promotional item to have Lenox done in multiple plants seems like it would be too much.
To me a possibility outside the normal day to day production seems like a possibility.
An error in printing the color, somewhat easily fixed.
Using up old stock seems to make very little sense. but if the transition from 460 group a to group be ended with BL460 group A and began with Lenox group B there would have probably been a bit of leftover brown as well as leftover A sheets...
However it was done, with very few examples
Figuring a sheet 8 cards tall, and a 1% survival rate, the number of sheets done was around 25.
Even adding a few cards, that only gets to an order for 6-7000 cards. (roughly, the sheet size to get there seems strange, it could be double, which still seems small. )