The off-center cards in the light-colored numbers tell us that both color TV's were in that printing. Most likely, this would include at least 32 dark color TV cards, 65-96. However, going through my set, I found miscuts showing light TV cards, 1-64, must have been adjacent at much higher numbers. Pictured here are 121 Russ Crawford, 128 Mike Garcia, 218 Joe Adcock, and 222 Russ Kemmerrer.
These are hardly unique, other copies of these cards and others can be found easily on comc or eBay.
None of my high series cards show a light TV wood pattern border, as expected, since the scarcity difference between the high number and the other cards is readily apparent, even if they aren't tough.
It seems to me there are 3 possible explanations. A) all low numbers were printed together as one massive series, B) Bowman printed a light frame wood border around their sheets just because), C) Bowman released the cards in a skip numbered pattern until the high series.
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