Help - Sweet Cap 460 factory 25s - SERIFS!

[steve B]

Originally Posted by t206fix

Oops, sorry guys, didn't look at this thread over the weekend.

I have found 12 - I thought I would have found a lot more.

Here they are

Abbatchio
Baker
Camnitz AAS
Doyle batting
Evers
Griffith
Joss
Lake
Magee
Merkle
Murray
Overall

It seems that Griffith and Baker are very common which is surprising considering they are HOFers

I've only seen one copy of Evers, Joss, Merkle

and like I said, it's been awhile since I've seen a "new" discovery.

Why do you think that it would only be one card on each sheet, Steve?

The plates/stones would have been laid out using transfers, which all come from the same master.
Flaws like this are usually from the transfer not getting fully transferred, so usually only happened once. Similar to the clipped or doubled name/team lines.

A few years ago I started looking at some plate scratches on P150, trying to assemble at least a partial sheet. (In stamps it's called plating, but there the sheet size is usually known... ) something that Pat R really understood right off, and took it way beyond what I had. He's got most of them figured out, and Unless there's a triplet I've missed, he has nearly all of them, with only two different fronts.
He's done the same for a bunch of other flaws, and a few other people have as well.

Another approach I was looking at was pop reports, but it was very difficult for anything but the 150s, and not conclusive. Chris B I believe shared a possible sheet/print run breakdown he did a different method that was for the 460's, and all the ones I checked using pop reports looked like they checked out. (and one group of SC was suprisingly difficult. )

I just recently found his chart again, and I'm planning on comparing it to the list of fronts you've seen with this flaw. I suspect these will confirm most of those groups - In other words, each front with the flaw will only appear once in a group.

It's also possible the transfer was larger than a single back by the time the 460's came out, and that the "master" for that larger transfer was laid out with single transfers one of which didn't transfer properly so it was on multiple positions.
For example if they did a 4x? grid and the bad transfer was in column 3 then every 4th column would have the same flaw.
Since transfers don't always transfer perfectly, one way to try to prove or disprove either would be through other smaller differences and whether they're there or not there consistently.

[t206fix]

Thanks for the response Steve. Any info you have (you mentioned a chart), I'd love to take a look at and do some research as well... In fact any info you have I'd like to look at.

I've seen the progress on the P.150 scratch plates. Cool work!

thanks!

[steve B]

The plate scratches is almost all Pat R. I started, and going from Ebay and auction scans had found around 30. Pat wanted to compare notes, and he had something like 3x that many.

The chart Chris did wasn't something he put out there, so that should be up to him if it gets shared. It's a bit complex, and needs a little interpretation. He didn't think it was really done.

One thing that makes it all more complicated is that there were multiple slightly different versions of most cards, indicating multiple press runs with different masters. The 150's were done probably 3 times, one of those being very difficult and maybe just an on plate alteration. 350s were also redone at least once, probably twice.

Some of that I really need to write up properly. I'm still trying to figure out how to share the visual spreadsheet I'm working on for 49 Leaf, which is much simpler.

I may try to get started on T206 the same way as they've shut down school to remote learning here in town, and I'm stuck at home.

[t206fix]

I understand. Anything anyone wants to share with me, I would appreciate it. I love to work on these things.