1908-09 BB card Wars....RAMLY vs American Caramel

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Posted By: Peter Thomas

Ted, I dont think that there are Ramly sheets out there. There was a sheet that was cut into cards and graded by SGC ( to their regret) about 12 years ago. Bill Mastro thinks ( but not sure) that it was one sheet of 121 cards. The graded SGC cards were sold in a Mastro auction about 12 years ago and resulted in a lot of very high grades (Johnson 96). I think it more likely that it was two sheets of 66 cards with a double print of 1 row of 11 cards on one sheet , making a total of 121 cards. It could also have been a sheet of 66 cards (11 x 6) and a sheet of 55 cards (11 x 5). Bill recalls seeing a sheet that was not complete, but he felt was more than 66 cards. I feel that there are two pieces of information that make it likely that the sheets had no more than 66 cards. The first is that the square border cards and blank back cards (Anderson, Bancroft, Bransfield, Burkett, Dineen & Moran) total 6 cards not 11 and second that the TTT backs are not found on all cards about 52 - 54 confirmed. 55 possible with 5 rows of 11 ( maybe a double print row of 11 on a sheet of 66) or 60 possible with a double print column of 6 on a sheet of 66