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Originally Posted by tbob
I've always thought pre-war meant pre-1917 because the cards are American and that's when we entered the war.
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I once read somewhere about the effect of the War before 1917 on cardmakers. I do know that when the European crisis broke into a full-blown conflict with England, France and Russia on one side and Germany, Austria-Hungary and Turkey on the other there was an immediate effect. Some of the dyes used to make the brightly-colored cards were German in origin and a lot of the trendy tobacco of the era was Turkish. Perhaps others here know more about the effect, but there had to be a good reason the card quality fell off after about 1913 (CJs excepted) besides just the demise of the ATC trust.