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Old 04-20-2010, 01:47 PM
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Picked up this neat Tolstoi "label." I believe it to be from the top of a carton of tolstoi cigarette boxes but will know more when it arrives. As some may be aware, the cigarette boxes that housed our T206 and other cards were usually shipped in cartons of 10 or 20 packs. I have never seen or heard of a Tolstoi carton before, but this piece is the same "brand" as the T206 Tolstoi (see the pack below for reference) and seems to indicate Tolstois were shipped in cartons of 20 packs. Tolstoi didn't make it out of the 1910s so I would approximate this to the 1910-1915 era.



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