Unconfirmed POLAR BEAR cards vs 1910 COUPON cards

[Abravefan11]

In my opinion the original 34 SL players were printed on one sheet or sheets first. The additional 14 came later and were included on sheets with other minor or major league players. This explains why even though the original 34 are available on more backs than the added 14, the added 14 are more common. They were mass produced since their sheets contained major leaguers as opposed to just SLer's. Also this is backed up by the Brown Old Mill cards only showing up within the original 34 group. Just those sheets had the Brown Old Mill printed on them.

Concerning the 48 major leaguers from the Coupon Type 1 set you need to keep in mind that 6 of those are Super Prints, so we're really discussing 42 350 Only players.

With that said I'm not mixing up the SL and ML players. The Coupon Type 1 were printed with front image sheets specific to that back. 68 front images in some order that then had the backs printed on them. They did not in my opinion segregate the ML and SL players onto different sheets for that issue as they did with the first 34 in the 150 series.

[tedzan]

There were 48 Major Leaguers on that COUPON sheet....not 42.

I hate to be argumentative with you....but, the Six Super Prints were originally 350-only subjects.
This is incontrovertible, since these six cards exist with AB 350 Frame backs.
Furthermore, they also exist with Sweet Caporal 460, Factory 30 backs; therefore, they are not 350/460 subjects.

As Scot Reader once described these six subjects...."they are 350-only, and 460-only cards at the same time"....
split personalities, so to say.


TED Z

[Abravefan11]

That's a good point and I'm willing to concede it to you if I could be sure the Coupons were printed during the early 350 print run. They may have been but I'm not sure I've seen enough yet to convince me of that.

[tedzan]

Another tidbit that is supportive of my contention that American Litho. (ALC) printed the T206's in sheets of 48, that I have considered,
is the prevalance of many major 48 and 50-card sets since 1887. Some notable examples are......

1887 Allen & Ginter (N28)
1888 Allen & Ginter (N29)
1888 Goodwin Champions (N162)
1888 Kimballs (N184)
1895 Mayo (N300)
1903 Breisch-Williams (E107)......3 x 50
1910 E101
1910 Mello Mints (E105)
1910 American Caramel (E106)

Apparently the track width of the printing presses used by the lithographers of that era (ALC, Geo. Harris & Sons, etc.) lend themselves
to sheets of this size (19" W x 12" L).


Consider this fact....the T206 150 series consists of 144 cards that were printed with 150/350 backs. That neatly translates to 3 x 48.


TED Z