View Full Version : A Checklist of Old Mill Newspaper Ads for T206 Cards
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01-25-2009, 06:40 PM
Posted By: <b>J Hull</b><p>I've recently come across several newspaper archives that contained a great many advertisements for Old Mill brand cigarettes, with the ads also mentioning that baseball cards could be collected from the packages of cigarettes. The baseball cards mentioned in the ads are almost certainly what we now call T206 cards, although in some ads it's possible they were referring to T210 cards.<br> <br>At any rate, I've created a webpage which contains a checklist and scans of an example of each ad. I'd be glad to know if anyone owns/has seen any Old Mill ads not on the checklist. For those of you interested in this sort of thing, enjoy!<br> <br> <br>Jamie<br><br><br><a href="http://www.jimonym.com" rel="nofollow">www.jimonym.com</a>
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01-25-2009, 06:44 PM
Posted By: <b>Frank Wakefield</b><p>Jamie. VERY nice!!!! Thanks for posting. Now if I could only right click and save the image... why would that be disabled?<br><br>FW
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01-25-2009, 06:46 PM
Posted By: <b>Craig W</b><p>Jamie that is Way Kewl! Thank you for sharing <img src="/images/happy.gif" height="14" width="14" alt="happy.gif">
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01-25-2009, 06:50 PM
Posted By: <b>J Hull</b><p>Hmmm.<br> <br>Sorry, Frank. It had a piece of JavaScript that wasn't playing nice with Firefox. Should be fine now though.
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01-25-2009, 07:06 PM
Posted By: <b>Jeremy</b><p>Jamie,<br><br>Tremendous job ! <br><br>Thank you !!<br><br>~ Jeremy ~
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01-25-2009, 07:26 PM
Posted By: <b>jay wolt</b><p>Pretty interesting.<br>No idea there was so many different scenes.<br>Thanks for the information
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01-25-2009, 09:04 PM
Posted By: <b>Jeff S.</b><p>I'd say that looks like Jaun Violat (Viola) peaking out of all those packs.<br><br><img src="http://imgs.inkfrog.com/pix/ladypaper/base218.jpg" width="309" height="492" alt="base218.jpg">
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01-26-2009, 06:55 AM
Posted By: <b>Jim Rivera</b><p>it looks like the Old Mill ad is printed (horizontal) opposite of the basball one(vertical). Is there a horizontal Old Mill ad?
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01-27-2009, 06:17 AM
Posted By: <b>J Hull</b><p>Hi Jim.<br>I'm not sure I understand what your question is asking.<br> <br>I've never seen any Old Mill newspaper ads but the 26 shown on my webpage, and have never seen any Old Mill ad (that I can remember) that didn't mention baseball cards being packaged in the packs.<br> <br>Jamie