T206 Sweet Caporal Census Project

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14. Atz (Print Group 2)



Discoveries:

T206 Sweet Caporal > Factory: 14 (plus 2 that were 2 blurry to read)
T206 > Factory: 4 (plus 8 Piedmont 350s)

Errors:

I discovered 1 error here, the first of the survey. There is a SC 350/25 slab that actually has a SC 350/30 back. The nice thing about the PSA slab is that the serial number shows up on the back too, so I double checked it, and sure enough, this is a mislabel. Our first of the survey, and honestly, this was one of the things I was most interested in, to see how many of these mislabels are really floating around out there.

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Before diving into the Bs, I wanted to share the summary of what I have so far.



Note that I am splitting out the 34 subjects that have the SC 150/649 OP back into their own row here. That is more about my own curiosity at this point.

We only have 14 subjects so far, so I don't think it is worth drawing any conclusions yet. Actually, I know it isn't worth it. But, I think it would be interesting to see how the numbers change as we add more cards to the sample. So far, the key takeaways are:

* SC 150/25 vs SC 150/30 split is 52/112, or slightly more than 2:1 Factory 30s to 25s

* SC 350/25 vs SC 350/30 split is 85/342, or a slightly more than 4:1 Factory 30 to 25 split.

* We only have one card with a 649OP so far (Alperman), but his card had 28 copies with the 649OP factory, compared to just 18 150/25s and 16 150/30s. That is moderately interesting to me.

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15. Baker (Print Group 3)



Discoveries:

T206 Sweet Caporal > Factory: 25 (plus 8 that were too blurry)
T206 > Factory: 15 (plus 1 too blurry, 6 P350s, 3 P460/25s, 1 P460/42)

Errors:

I found 3 errors in the scans:

* One SC 460/42 that was actually a 460/42OP
* One SC 350/30 that was actually a 350/25
* One SC 350/25 that was actually a 460/25 (this is a PSA DNA card)

The Baker SC 460/42OP had only 12 copies in the PSA pop report, but I found 19 of them in total just with PSA, and another 7 at SGC. Of the 19 in PSA slabs, only 5 of them actually had SC 460/42OP on the label, the rest were Sweet Caporal or T206 labels.

I also found my first hidden Piedmont 460/42, which was quite exciting. It was in a T206 labeled slab.

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16. Ball - New York (Print Group 1)



Discoveries:

T206 Sweet Caporal > Factory: 16 (plus 3 that were too blurry to read)
T206 > Factory: 4 (plus 7 Piedmont 150s)

So....I might go ahead and double check the numbers tomorrow just to make sure I wasn't too tired while doing this one, but the numbers here are surprising. Ball NY does not have many SC 350s...only 12 with factory numbers from PSA (based on the pop report), and only 14 total from SGC. But of the 9 SC 350s I found, 7 of them were Factory 25 and only 2 were Factory 30, which is a pretty big shock to me. For the SC 150s, I found a 10% difference in Factory 25 to 30 compared to the online PSA pop report.

I am going to double check this one tomorrow just to be safe.

Update --> I checked the Ball numbers and they are correct.

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17. Ball Cleveland (Print Group 4)



We continue the trend here where the 42OPs and 649OPs seem to be underreported in the population reports.

I looked at 38 of the 120 PSA graded Sweet Caps and found 6 SC 460/42OPs compared to the 4 listed in the population report.

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18. Barbeau (Print Group 2)



We can add Barbeau to the "Factory 25s are extremely hard to find" bucket for the 350 only guys.

A fun oddity here: I checked 39 PSA slabs and found only 2 Fac 25s, but saw only 13 total SGC slabs and found 3 Fac 25s

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Hi James, You remind me of a younger me. I don’t think you are a “sicko.”

https://www.net54baseball.com/showth...t=76172&page=3

Good luck!

Scot