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Posted By: Rhys

I was always under the impression that a large majority of the T206 cards that were produced were thrown out for scrap paper drives in WW1 (an the other huge percentage was for similar drives during WW2). With the US rumered to be entering the war by as early as 1917 and actually entering it by 1918, wouldn't it seem weird that would be having scrap paper drives during these years but continue to be producing or at least inserting paper items into their products as premiums? I was not alive during that time obviously but it seems a bit counter intuitive to insert a paper product into a package during a period where the country is banding together to save and recycle paper on a massive scale. You see almost no premiums of any type or paper products being produced that were not absolutely necessary for production from about late 1917- early 1919 in the advertising world (baseball and non-baseball included) and the War was a big factor. This may or may not be the case here but it might be something to ponder in your theories.

Rhys Yeakley