T206 Sweet Caporal Census Project

[Pat R]

Originally Posted by 53toppscollector

That is really interesting. Has there ever been any actual confirmed writing about how the print process worked in detail? I know assumptions have been made about sheet size (based on your plate scratch work) and we've been able to draw some assumptions based on populations (the super prints and the exclusive 12)

Finding those old records/details about how subjects were selected, how the print runs were ordered, etc, would truly be the holy grail to me. Reading the rationale for why so few Drums were printed, why more Polar Bears were printed compared to EPDG, etc etc. That is the stuff I am truly most interested in.

I don't know of any confirmed writing on the printing process but there was an
old journal that discovered that included an order page for non-sports cards.

0 NS Journal page.jpg

If you haven't seen this thread there's some interesting information in it.
https://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=309276

Even if there is an uncut T206 sheet discovered some day IMO that will only tell us a small part of the T206 printing process because I think there were different sheet sizes and the layouts changed numerous times during the printing process.