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Posted By: Scot Reader

George,

Your question was totally legitimate.

Please ignore the noise and keep on posting.

Ted,

Great summary of the landscape, as usual. I think Doyle (Throwing) might also fit your profile of "virtual" 150-onlys that are seen in 350 solely and rarely with the Piedmont 350 back. Doyle (Throwing) never showed up in my ebay survey with a 350 back and I believe Lee Behrens alone indicated that he had one with Piedmont 350 in your Net54 survey of possible 150-onlys.

And then there are Ames (Hands at Chest), Ewing and Schulte (Front View), who in addition to the eleven 150-only subjects you have mentioned I don't think have ever been confirmed with any 350 back--although Ewing is possible with EPDG.

Barry, Frank,

My eBay study found that Powers is actually the easiest of the 150-only subjects. The reason is that Powers is the ONLY 150-only subject who can be found with the Sweet Caporal 150 Factory 649 overprint back. While that back is not particularly common, since it only appears on about three dozen different subjects in the set it adds meaningfully to the population of those three dozen subjects.

Scot