Firstly thank you so much for sharing this information. I do not do bundles but your findings provide some immense insights into the arrangements of bundles that I have run into.
Firstly as has been pointed out the brick that you have with the 10 bundles straddles 3 ranges of 200 skip numbered sheets. In other words your bundle represents 1,000 notes from a range of 27,000 notes belonging to 600 sheets of printed notes.
The lowest and highest numbers in each of these sets of 200 sheets would be as follows (only portions of which are reported in your bundle) :
Set 1 - 4131000 - 41/41 to 4139999 - 09/09 (representing 9000 notes)
Set 2 - 4140000 - 41/41 to 4148999 - 09/09 (representing 9000 notes)
Set 3 - 4149000 - 41/41 to 4157999 - 09/09 (representing 9000 notes)
Your bundle consists of notes from the following position numbers from each of the sets:
Bundle 1 - Set 1, PN 05/05; Set 2, PN 05/05
Bundle 2 - Set 1, PN 29/29; Set 2, PN 29/29; Set 3, PN 29/29
Bundle 3 - Set 1, PN 49/49; Set 2, PN 49/49
Bundle 4 - Set 1, PN 24/24; Set 2, PN 24/24; Set 3, PN 24/24
Bundle 5 - Set 2, PN 28/28; Set 3, PN 28/28
Bundle 6 - Set 1, PN 48/48; Set 2, PN 48/48; Set 3, PN 49/49
Bundle 7 - Set 1, PN 23/23; Set 2, PN 23/23; Set 3, PN 14/14
Bundle 8 - Set 2, PN 48/48; Set 3, PN 48/48
Bundle 9 - Set 2, PN 04/04; Set 3, PN 04/04
Bundle 10 - Set 1, PN 04/04; Set 2, PN 04/04; Set 3, PN 05/05
Notes with same PN are from contiguous sheets (unless notes are missing) across the three sets even though the numbers change by 9000 between the sets.
It is my belief that although the numbers are skipped at 200 the printing of number does not stop at every 200 sheets i.e. the ream size is much more than 200. The printing wheels change on the fly. Although there is some people on this forum who believe differently I think newer technology that allows the numbers to change on the fly is mostly likely being used.
What does this all mean to collectors.
Firstly from my perspective, armed with this knowledge you can reverse assemble notes that belong to the same sheet. I as a collector am willing to pay more than face if I can get a matrix of at least 3x3 adjacent notes from the same sheet.
In your bundle I see many possibilities of adjacent notes from the same sheet.
For example:
In Bundle 1 you have PN 05 and in Bundle 10 you have position number 04. Based on the serial numbers you have provided the following would be adjacent notes from same sheet (up and down)
4138832 - PN 04 - Bundle 10 adjacent with 4139032 - PN 05 - Bundle 1
There are many other up down adjacent notes possible in your bundle.
You also have a possibility of up & down and sideways adjacent notes from the same sheet. I cannot be sure as I am not sure which exact serial numbers you have but the following possibility exists:
Bundle 7 - PN 14, Bundle 8 PN 04 and Bundle 10 PN 05.
There are other things that speak to the whole issue of the how these bundles are now being assembled and it can only come to fruition if more collector like you share this detailed information.
PM me separately if you are interested in reverse assembling a sheet from your bundle finds.
Again thank you and congratulations on your great radar finds.
