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Message:: [QUOTE="Jamericon, post: 791444, member: 18294"]In regards to Numbers, he supplemented my post with very good additional information, and I would like to add that not all is lost. There are ledgers in the National Archives that contain handwritten entries of daily serial number printings for regular notes for various Series of 1928 and 1934 classes. I believe, as do other researchers, that identical ledgers were maintained for star printings. After all, the BEP is simply a production plant, and everything had to be accounted for, down to the last sheet. The problem is that the BEP operators were not always diligent about labeling these ledgers with the actual contents. They also tended to add data to a ledger originally used for a different purpose. (For instance, the plate records for 12-subject backs are in a book titled "Series of 1902 plates.") This confusion is compounded by the archivists at the NA who frequently do not know what they are looking at, and enter these ledgers under incorrect titles in the call records. Surrendipity is your friend when looking through 20th-century BEP records! I am meeting Peter Huntoon at the archives this Friday, and will continue the search...[/QUOTE]