How many to a series? Let's see some 1955 Bowman miscuts and uncut material

[jiw98]

What I remember most from putting this set together was how hard it was to find a Willie Mays that wasn't really short.[/QUOTE]

The 2 Mays that I have are not cut short. They're both in nice shape.

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by jiw98

What I remember most from putting this set together was how hard it was to find a Willie Mays that wasn't really short.

The 2 Mays that I have are not cut short. They're both in nice shape.[/QUOTE]



Nice, I finally ended up buying a SGC graded one to crack out for my ungraded set.

Funny story, I bought my Mantle and Mays from the same dealer at the same time here on Net54. The Mays was a full 1/4 inch shorter. I emailed him and he told me to return it and he would sent me another. The next one was only 1/8 of a inch shoter than the Mantle.

[JollyElm]

As I was rooting through boxes of cards, I remembered this thread when I ran across a 1955 Bowman #1 Hoyt Wilhelm with a small bit of dark running down its right side. It sort of intermingles with the shadow from the flash, unfortunately, but it is there...

1955bowmanwilhelm1.jpg

[paul]

Why would the first card in the first series (Wilhelm) be located on a sheet right next to a card with a dark background from a later series?

[Cliff Bowman]

Originally Posted by paul

Why would the first card in the first series (Wilhelm) be located on a sheet right next to a card with a dark background from a later series?

It looks to me like Wilhelm was on the outer edge of the sheet and that isn't another card, but I'm not familiar with 50's Bowman sheets.

[G1911]

Originally Posted by paul

Why would the first card in the first series (Wilhelm) be located on a sheet right next to a card with a dark background from a later series?

The light border cards are not a series. Bowman's 1955 sheets were much larger than the sheets used earlier in the decade, and many featured dark and light bordered cards together. They seem to have replaced some cards and kept others as time went on, with multiple sheet layouts.

There are a ton of pics in this thread of cards showing an adjacent card of another color, and one of the sheets.

[G1911]

Wilhelm is often found with the red line at right. I'm not sure if this is a black line, or part of a darker color card. Here's another copy showing more of it.

[Cliff Bowman]

Originally Posted by G1911

Wilhelm is often found with the red line at right. I'm not sure if this is a black line, or part of a darker color card. Here's another copy showing more of it.

I don't think that black is part of another card. I found another 55 Wilhelm that is very similar to the 62 Topps method of wedding different sheet patterns together.