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Posted By: barrysloate

Since Art demonstrates that T206 were in fact printed in sheets- and I can't imagine you assembled those four cards individually, so when was that panel cut down?- it is possible that a full sheet would reveal vertical rows with the same player in each column. Also, Ted brought up an interesting point- that T206 Wagner strip may not be exactly what we think it is. The same way that all tobacco stores were given small counter cards to help advertise product, is it possible that the strip was never really intended for distribution? I know it is blank backed and assumed to be a proof, but compare it to Scott Brockelman's intersting T209 panels which we guess were advertising panels. And since the strip was personally delivered to Wagner himself, is it also possible it was made exclusively for him, since he was skeptical about having his picture used? Could it be that strip was sent to him in the hope he would finally agree to let the company use his image on their baseball cards?