Five questions about T212 Obak

[Orioles1954]

Hi Ed,

No, there are several double and a couple of triple-printed cards on the sheet. Definitely one-of-a-kind and was found by our consignor in an abandoned print shop in San Francisco.

James

[rjackson44]

I own a few love them for my type collection

[trdcrdkid]

Wow, the pattern in the uncut sheet that Orioles posted is really interesting. The nine leftmost columns consist of four different rows of nine card repeated twice each, A-A-B-B-C-C-D-D (going from top to bottom, and ignoring the bottom horizontal row). The nine rightmost columns also consist of four different rows of nine cards each, but in an A-B-C-A-B-C-D-D pattern (top to bottom). The middle three columns consist of four different rows of three, repeated in an A-B-A-B-C-C-D-D pattern (top to bottom). So it looks like each card in that main 21x8 part of the sheet (168 cards) is repeated twice, meaning there are 84 different cards in that section. The bottom horizontal row consists of 11 cards, four of them repeated twice, and three (the ones in the lower left corner) appearing only once. Unless I'm overlooking something, the four cards appearing twice in the bottom horizontal row don't appear in the top part of the sheet, so that there are 88 cards that appear twice on the sheet. The three cards on the left end of the bottom row each also appears in the main part of the sheet, so they're the only three triple-printed cards. One of them is Buck Weaver (right-handed batting stance, green background), the most valuable card in the set.

[edjs]

David,

That is what I counted, too. The total number is 88 different subjects, which would mean you would need two sheets to make the 175 subjects in the 1911 (88 times 2 is 176, so curious that is works out that way). That sheet is really confusing as to why they would lay it out like that, but way cool to see. A big thanks to James for posting it. And it was FOUND in an abandoned print shop. Oh, what a find!