Joe, thank you very much for your extensive and interesting answers. I'll need to go back and study the book to better understand all the details of the printing, but from a collector's perspective, on a purely practical level - do you like the idea of dividing OJ's into 1887, 88 and 89 (86 and maybe 90, even), for the sake of set registry's, pop reports, things like that?
Point being that while the differences in the subsets is all very interesting, the set could still largely be broken into 1887, 1888, and 1889 cards comprising of three different sets, and that for the 1887's, it would be fairly easy to track them by the number that actually appears on the card, even if you were combining the Zero and Short series print runs into a larger 1887 baseball set.
Thanks
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