T206 - Determining possible subjects with rare back

[tedzan]

Originally Posted by Rollingstone206

Ted,

I was reading one of your threads and think it would be great to use as an example for this question.
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=125062

"The BROAD LEAF 460 cards are only from the 350/460 series....27 subjects from this series of 61 cards have been confirmed. I expect several more will show up."

How is it calculated there are 61 subjects in the Broad Leaf 460?

"The BROAD LEAF 350 cards depict players in the 350 series, which comprises of 214 subjects. These cards were issued circa..Summer/Fall 1910."

How is it calculated there are 214 subjects in the Broad Leaf 350?

I understand there are X number of cards so-far confirmed for each back. It is
that total subject number being worked on confirming that has me very interesting in finding out how it is determined.

Thanks for shedding light on this for me!

Hi Brian

First, 61 subjects were designated for the 350/460 series, this comes from American Lithographic's printing 66 of the SOVEREIGN 350 guys with "apple green"
backs (as opposed to the "forest green" backs of the other 350 series subjects in the SOVEREIGN run). And, that is how we determined this number.

As a result, three [Joe Doyle, Nichols (bat), Rhoades (throwing)] of these 66 subjects were not subsequently printed with 460 series backs because their ML
careers ended. And, Kleinow (Boston) and Frank Smith (Chicago & Boston) were only printed with 460 backs due to their trades.....hence the number 61.

Furthermore, as you read in my thread regarding the BROAD LEAF 460 (BL 460) subjects, the 27 that have been confirmed are only from the 350/460 series.
No BL 460 subjects were printed from the 460-only series.


Good questions; and, if yoiy have more ?'s, I will try to answer them.


TED Z