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

[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.

[G1911]

Wilhelm is often found with the red line at right. I'm not sure if this is a black line, or part of a darker color card. Here's another copy showing more of it.

[Cliff Bowman]

Originally Posted by G1911

Wilhelm is often found with the red line at right. I'm not sure if this is a black line, or part of a darker color card. Here's another copy showing more of it.

I don't think that black is part of another card. I found another 55 Wilhelm that is very similar to the 62 Topps method of wedding different sheet patterns together.

[G1911]

Originally Posted by Cliff Bowman

I don't think that black is part of another card. I found another 55 Wilhelm that is very similar to the 62 Topps method of wedding different sheet patterns together.

I think your copy here makes it clear that is indeed the case.

I believe basically every card in the set can be found with that thinner light line on its margins.

There are also multiple colors of the thicker divider lines during different stretches on different borders. Black, Red, Blue at least.