Saturday, January 28, 2012

Alternate Reality

Well kids, thirty years later a partial solution to the second 1967 baseball high number sheet has been revealed. A Current Friend o'the Archive sent along a partial sheet scan of the top three rows on the alternate sheet.

To refresh your memories, the 12 rows on the known full sheet were printed in this order (SP = Single Print, DP = Double Print):

DP1
DP2
DP3
DP4
DP5
DP1
SP1
SP2
DP2
DP3
DP4
DP5

Given the disconnect between that array and what has been shown in the major price guides as purported double prints, the second sheet has always been the key to determining which numbers were printed more often than the other high numbers.  This new information is not what I expected,as the upper left corner shows:






The top row matches the other sheet (DP1) but the next row is SP1 on the other sheet and it appeared as the seventh row previously.  The real kicker is the DP1 row repeating again so soon.  We get:

DP1
SP1
DP1

That's now four "Pinson rows" over two sheets. Now the question is what do the other nine rows look like on this alternate sheet?  My theory on overall print totals per row over both sheets remains intact but I suspect there is at least one more surprise on that second sheet.  The above sheet is a finished proof by the way, meaning the backs were printed as well.  Finding/figuring the next nine rows could take another thirty years!

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