A Summer Gift - and I am tired of looking - Honus Wagner

[BigJJ]

C,

Interesting.

Looks like a strip to me.

Another tell-tale sign that this is a strip, is that it appears all 5 cards were on the bottom, not top, four rows of the eight row sheet. This is highly unlikely to have occurred randomly.

There is a 50/50 chance of each player being on the bottom of a sheet. We have firmly confirmed that two players, Brown (Portrait) and Bowerman were on the bottom of the sheet - there was a 25% chance of this being the case randomly. Also, there is the fact that, despite tremendous searching over the years by collectors, for a "WAGNER, PITTSBURGH" on another card, none have been found. This is likely because none existed, though scarcity of the card as an arguable rationale is reasonable. but I think the likelihood is, it is because none existed, because the Wagner cards were located on the bottom of the sheet. The fact that the other two cards on the strip - Kling and Cy Young (Portrait) - that their names also have not been found on any other card also lends support to all 5 cards being on the bottom half of the sheet. The odds of 5 cards randomly being found on the bottom of a sheet is about 3%.

The odds are incredibly high that the five cards are likely found on the bottom half of the sheet because this strip is an accurate representation of their placement on the sheet next to one another on the bottom half.