How many to a series? Let's see some 1955 Bowman miscuts and uncut material

[G1911]

And 50 Ford/60 Slaughter with the same effect. There are numerous colors to Whitey's left, including purple, yellow, red, black, brown and more.

Both of them look bug eyed in the photos....

[jiw98]

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Cole #28
Schoendiest #29
Sarni #30
Darnell #39
Corwin #122

[G1911]

5 more!

25, 28, 29, 30, 31, 33, 34, 39 and 40 are all confirmed as border cards now, so presumably the rest in this range we can locate this way.

122 Corwin pairs with the 121 Crawford from earlier - presumably there will be a few more in this number range.

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by G1911

And 50 Ford/60 Slaughter with the same effect. There are numerous colors to Whitey's left, including purple, yellow, red, black, brown and more.

Both of them look bug eyed in the photos....

That slight print offset does make their eyes stick out.

What I remember most from putting this set together was how hard it was to find a Willie Mays that wasn't really short.

[G1911]

Originally Posted by bnorth

That slight print offset does make their eyes stick out.

What I remember most from putting this set together was how hard it was to find a Willie Mays that wasn't really short.

I don't know what was up with the cutting this year, but it is Bowman's worst cut issue by far. The 1954 footballs and 1955 footballs (which I believe were the sets printed before and after this issue; the non-sports issues dying out around this time) are both much better cut. I store my 326 set without sleeves, and handling the stack really makes clear just how poorly cut it is. I'll have to check my Mays, it's one of my favorite poses of him.

[G1911]

And 32 Post exists:

[G1911]

26 Trucks locks in 25-34 as all being border cards between the color panels. Even with the terrible cutting in 1955, the design makes it really hard to be able to tell what the adjacent card was to try and fill in the other sheet configurations besides the one we have a scan of.

[G1911]

35 Tuttle has it, but on the opposite side of what I expected:

[G1911]

36 Belardi

[jiw98]

What I remember most from putting this set together was how hard it was to find a Willie Mays that wasn't really short.[/QUOTE]

The 2 Mays that I have are not cut short. They're both in nice shape.

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by jiw98

What I remember most from putting this set together was how hard it was to find a Willie Mays that wasn't really short.

The 2 Mays that I have are not cut short. They're both in nice shape.[/QUOTE]



Nice, I finally ended up buying a SGC graded one to crack out for my ungraded set.

Funny story, I bought my Mantle and Mays from the same dealer at the same time here on Net54. The Mays was a full 1/4 inch shorter. I emailed him and he told me to return it and he would sent me another. The next one was only 1/8 of a inch shoter than the Mantle.

[JollyElm]

As I was rooting through boxes of cards, I remembered this thread when I ran across a 1955 Bowman #1 Hoyt Wilhelm with a small bit of dark running down its right side. It sort of intermingles with the shadow from the flash, unfortunately, but it is there...

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[paul]

Why would the first card in the first series (Wilhelm) be located on a sheet right next to a card with a dark background from a later series?

[Cliff Bowman]

Originally Posted by paul

Why would the first card in the first series (Wilhelm) be located on a sheet right next to a card with a dark background from a later series?

It looks to me like Wilhelm was on the outer edge of the sheet and that isn't another card, but I'm not familiar with 50's Bowman sheets.

[G1911]

Originally Posted by paul

Why would the first card in the first series (Wilhelm) be located on a sheet right next to a card with a dark background from a later series?

The light border cards are not a series. Bowman's 1955 sheets were much larger than the sheets used earlier in the decade, and many featured dark and light bordered cards together. They seem to have replaced some cards and kept others as time went on, with multiple sheet layouts.

There are a ton of pics in this thread of cards showing an adjacent card of another color, and one of the sheets.