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Mapping out the T206 sheets....check-out the A-B-C-D lists
Over 2 years ago, I speculated that American Lithographic (ALC) printed & issued the AMERICAN BEAUTY 350, BROAD LEAF 350, CYCLE 350,
and DRUM 350 cards concurrently in the Summer/Fall of 1910. I referred to this release as the "A-B-C-D" connection. My theory is based on the similarity of the design of these four T206 backs. Compare the near-complete confirmed lists of these four backs. It is quite apparent that these A-B-C cards virtually share common FRONTS. Eventually, as more DRUM's surface and the DRUM list is near completion, I expect that it, too, will virtually coincide with the A-B-C pattern. During the various production phases of the 350 series, ALC would pre-print sheets with certain T206 fronts (unprinted backs). My research indicates that these sheets were formatted in arrays of 12 cards across a row by 4 (or 6, or more) rows down each sheet. Several of these sheets comprised this series of approx. 200 cards. As orders from the various tobacco Factory's in the North, South, and Midwest would arrive at ALC for the T206 cards, ALC would then print the appropriate backs on these pre-printed sheets. Followed by cutting the cards and shipping them to the requesting Factory. With respect to these A-B-C-D cards, they were all shipped to the Richmond plant (Factory 25) in Virginia to be inserted into the A-B-C-D cigarette packs, respectively. Then, for example, the DRUM cigarette packs were shipped to the St Louis area from Richmond. ...............A..............................B... ..........................C....................... ........D TED Z Last edited by tedzan; 07-15-2010 at 09:13 AM. |
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Obak Parallel or No?
James recently reported that Huggins has been consigned an OBak sheet, which proved conclusively that Obak's were printed at Schmidt Lithography in San Francisco. The sheet is comprised of (8) 21-card vertical strips and (1) 11-card horizontal strip at the bottom. There are (88) different players. (85) cards have duplicates while (3) cards (including Weaver) have triplicates.
When I saw the sheet in the latest H&S auction catalog, I couldn't help but thinking T206s were probably printed the same way. Any thoughts?
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Mapping out the T206 sheets....check-out the A-B-C-D lists
Information dating back to the early 20th Century regarding printing presses, notes that a 19-inch wide track press was used
by American Litho. for their color lithography printing. Therefore, when you consider that the T206's are 1 1/2 inch wide, this results in 12 cards per row. Furthermore, the total card count of each of the T206 series (150, 350, 460, and Southern League) are multiples of 12. P.S......Schmidt Litho. of San Francisco used a much wider track press to print their OBAK cards. This is totally unrelated to the printing of the T206's. TED Z Last edited by tedzan; 07-14-2010 at 04:40 PM. |
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Cool... Makes sense to me. I think its interesting that the Obak sheets had extra horizontally placed cards at the bottom of the sheets. Given that I don't think anyone has ever seen a T206 miscut like that lends credence to your theory.
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can you post a link to the Obak sheet?
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Jim R......
Is this the OBAK sheet that you are interested in ?
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthr...ak+uncut+sheet TED Z |
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