E90-1s have plate scratches too!

[Leon]

It seems the only reason where something is mfg'd would be important will be if we can find the press that had the scratch or are able to put a sheet together by locating it? But generally I would agree that where a card is produced doesn't really help with where they were located on a sheet. Those scratches might help though....

Originally Posted by Pat R

Ted,
I don't see how where they were printed makes a difference. A scratch is a
scratch and where they were printed shouldn't factor into it.

Neither should the %. If enough scratches are found to connect them and
come up with a sheet or partial sheet layout it doesn't matter how many
cards you have to look through to find them. I have saved scans from quite
a few that are listed on ebay and there are a lot more than the seven you found.

I didn't want to go back and look through all of them but I did look through
a few pages and found twelve but I could only attach nine links.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1909-E90-1-A...sAAOSw4shX60qP

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1909-E90-1-G...sAAOSwx2dYDj3P

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1909-E90-1-A...8AAOSw9IpX1Jsl
http://www.ebay.com/itm/1909-11-Amer...IAAMXQXZZReKdd

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1909-E90-1-A...sAAOSwnDZT99lV
http://www.ebay.com/itm/1909-E90-1-A...gAAOSwKrxUY311
http://www.ebay.com/itm/1909-E90-1-A...8AAOSwTA9X61yw

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1909-E90-1-A...AAAOSwu4BVoUuB
http://www.ebay.com/itm/1909-11-E90-...YAAOSwqfNXj~QP
I also don't follow what you mean by varying ink streaks, they were caused
by something scratching the surface it's not like someone drew a straight line
through the back plate.