T206....PIEDMONT vs EPDG cards in 350 series and 460 series

[Pat R]

Originally Posted by tedzan

Hey Luke

Where's your evidence that EPDG cards were printed before PIEDMONT ?

At least I have provided 2 examples of circumstantial evidence to prove my case.

What do you have to support your argument ?
Some questionable "scratches" on the backs of T206's ? ? That's laughable.

Hey, when I presented my " PIEDMONT first " theory back in 2006, quite a number of Net54 T206er's thought it was logical.
Based on what we know of American Litho's printing practices, and the design of the various series of the T206's.


TED Z
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Ted,

The plate scratches weren't even brought up in this discussion. It's interesting
that you find them "laughable" since you probably haven't done any research
on them and it's likely you have ignored the threads so I will post a
brief demonstration of how they could be significant.

You claim that they are a few random scratches but there are actually over
250 different confirmed scratches and they are not random. The same exact
scratches appear several different times on the same subjects.

Here are three Seymour's that I own with the same exact scratch in the same place.

Seymour Group Back.jpg
Seymour Group.jpg

There were three Seymour's with this scratch on ebay one of them sold
but here are links to the other two.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1909-11-T206...QAAOSw44BYkAOQ

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1909-11-T206...4AAOSwnGJWSo7F

I have been in the ceramic tile installation business for over 40 years.
I learned the trade from my father and one of the things he taught me
was drawing a line through the backs of the tiles to keep them in order
for certain situations. For instance if you have a horizontal row of tiles
ending at an angled ceiling the best way to get a nice cut
so they all line up is to take the measurement on the two ends of that
row of tiles line them up and draw your cut line with a straight edge. When you
do that you can end up with similar cuts so he taught me what to do to keep
from getting them mixed up when you're installing them on the wall.
He showed me that if you turn them over and draw an angled line through
all of them and mark the ends with a slash mark this way if you get them mixed up
all you have to do is turn them over and match the lines up on the backs.

That is basically what we're trying to accomplish with the plate scratches.

I did a quick small sample with a group of cards.

I lined them up scanned them and printed it out.
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drew an angled line through the back.
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then I cut them into individual "cards"
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This next part you're going to have to take my word for but I mixed them all up and lined them up using only the marks on the backs and scanned them.
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So maybe you find the plate scratches laughable but I find them interesting
and a way to possibly find the layouts and size of a few of the T206 sheets.