Just the facts ma'm
For those of you playing at home, facts from Lipset's Encyclopedia:
12 rows by 12 columns for the colored silks and 13 rows and 12 columns for the white ones. 144 colored silks with 24 duplicates for the colored, 156 silks with 68 (out of 90) known subjects in an early 1910 printing for the whites, as noted above.
Colored silks, per Lipset measure 1 7/8" by 3 1/2" and whites are 1 7/8" by 3". T206 cards are generally 1 7/16" x 2 5/8", none of my guides measure the width of an AB but I get 1 3/8" as noted above.
Now, I do not know what a T205 AB measures in width as I do not own one but Lipset has standard dimensions of 1 1/2" wide for non-AB's. When I measure my (non AB) T205's, I get a reading just between 1 7/16" and 1 1/2", so 1 15/32" the way I measure them.
There is a non sport AB issue: the T42 Bird series. According to Mitchell & Forbes in American Tobacco Cards, these measure 1 1/2" inches wide, which come in gold or white borders, 50 subjects apiece, with only one appearing in both. There is no mention of thinner AB cards by the authors.
Figured this was easier than everybody looking things up each time they log in!
Last edited by toppcat; 03-30-2010 at 05:24 PM.
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