I agree with the sheet comment...
Obviously, that is a horizontal strip and a vertical strip. That doesn't mean that B and D cards were printed in horizontal... although it would mean that B and D weren't printed in vertical strips only. Golly, sometimes when thinking about this stuff I feel like I'm in an old college logic class I once took. B and D's could be sheets, just as well as horizontal strips. What makes sense that all of the printing would have been the same way, instead of some vertical strips and some horizontal. I can envision that the cutting of the sheets might have varied... oops, I said it. Sheets. I think that is what was going on with these cards. Printed in sheets, distributed in strips, V's and H's.
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