Ted I am going to politely disagree with just about everything in your last post directed at me.
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Originally Posted by tedzan
1.....The OLD MILL or PIEDMONT versions of the Southern League (SL) series clearly consist of 48 cards. The initial printing of the SL series coincided
with the initial Brown HINDU press runs and included only 34 SL cards. These SL cards were most likely printed on a 36-card sheet (or 48-card sheet).
In any event, Major Leaguer's cards (or Double-Prints of the some of the SL cards) were included to fill out these sheets.
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Yes, the Southern League group consists of 48 cards but ALC made the decision to reduce the number printed in the brown Hindu print run to 34. All 34 of these images were printed on one sheet and the Brown Old Mill cards back this up. If there was room for 36 front images why only print 34? In later print runs of Piedmont 350 and Old Mill southern league cards the sheets front image combinations could have and more than likely were different.
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Originally Posted by tedzan
It is apparent in the design structure of the T206 set, that 6 is the lowest common denominator. You cannot dismiss this fact, as it is evident through-
out the various T206 series. The make-up of each of the 5 series (150, 350, 350/460, 460, Southern League) is divisible by 6. Furthermore, this factor
is evident in the sub-series (150-only, super-prints, horizontal cards, etc.) This is not a mere coincidence, it was by design.
And my friend, 6 does not factor into 34. I don't see "34" as being any kind of a "magic number" in the production of T206's. The number 34 only exists
with the initial Brown HINDU run of the SL cards.
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I don’t think there is any pattern in the T206 set of the number 6 that I have seen that is anything more than coincidence to the point you’re trying to make. Yes there are six super prints and six horizontal cards but that number has nothing to do with the makeup of a T206 sheet that I am aware of. It’s just several incidences of the number six within a huge set. In large amounts of data false patterns are often found but are otherwise meaningless. It's called apophenia.
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Originally Posted by tedzan
Incidently, regarding Brown HINDU cards, there are 105 confirmed Major Leaguer cards (not 102).
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My confirmed list is at 102. If and when I see the other 3 I will gladly add them. Until I do I will admittedly be a little skeptical that they exist.
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Originally Posted by tedzan
2.....The 1910 Coupon set consists of 48 Major Leaguer (ML) cards and 20 SL cards. As you know, the 48 ML subjects are derived from the 350-only
Series. Now, I think it has been established (and you'll agree) that the FRONTS of the T206 sheets were printed first. Blank-backed cards of T206's
with "wet ink transfers" of fronts have confirmed this.
So, the American Litho. Co. (ALC) stocked these pre-printed sheets of T206's; and, when an order was received from the various Tobacco Factories,
ALC would then print that brand on the backs of these sheets. Then ship the completed T206's to that respective factory.
Circa Spring of 1910, orders arrived from the ATC's newly acquired COUPON Tobacco Company. ALC grabbed some 48-card blank-backed sheets during
the printing of their 350 series ML cards; and, printed the "COUPON" backs on them. Similarly, ALC grabbed some sheets of blank-backed SL cards and
selected 20 - SL subjects, representing the Southern Association, and printed the "COUPON" backs on them. Multiple sets of these 68 cards were then
shipped to Factory #3 in Louisiana to be inserted in the COUPON cigarette packs.
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This theory isn’t plausible as Coupon Type 1’s were printed on a different stock. The Coupon Type 1 was a set comprised of its own unique front image combinations consisting of 68 cards.
One day Ted you're going to allow me to change your opinion on something regarding this set.
