49 bowman mystery remains unsolved

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Originally Posted by Bram99

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/417028

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/417010

https://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Rk6GBqQuP...frontuncut.jpg

https://robertedwardauctions.com/arc...r-stan-musials

https://robertedwardauctions.com/arc...ll-wrong-backs

The first two sheets are quite well documented.

I also have a group of 36 overprint back ones 1-3, 5 to 37 that I picked up. I think the 36 card layout of the sheets is pretty well confirmed.

Not many of the higher numbered series did survive though, so perhaps they could have changed to 72 card double sheets at some point, or re-printing certain cards over again on later sheets like Topps did with 1953, but the assumption has been that they were printed in sheets of 36, 7 of them.

It is pretty clear that the 12 PNOB and NOF cards are more scarce than their counterpart lower series cards as well if you check the population reports on PSA and SGC.

I'm aware of the panels.

A large size 1951 Bowman sheet was found, and we have large sections of 1955 showing that those were big sheets (although the 1951's too were allegedly small sheets).

The same layout of small panels of 36/32 were used the same way by the same authorities in Bowman Football to state that there were only 36/32 cards on a sheet and those are a series - this has been completely debunked by miscuts for every year form 1950-1955 so far.

Pack openings, like those in this thread, do not really fit with the story.

The panels do not show indica of being full sheets, the empty spaces at each side that a full sheet has. The assumption of the conventional story of Bowman sheets and series all at its root relies on an assumption that these panels are complete sheets, not partial panels. I would love to see one of these panels that actually appears to be a full sheet instead of a selected cut of a partial sheet. That these are entire, complete production sheets are not, in fact, "well documented" or "confirmed".

I would thus not assume this rendition as true, as there is no evidence I can find that the panels are complete sheets and considerable evidence that they probably are not.