I don't necessarily disagree with that. Seems to me some of these square things could have been made in 1909. And some were definitely in 1910 and later.
But back there where you said that the square cards are 'tied' to 1909, that just isn't so.
I thought the goal here was to show that these square cards weren't predecessors to the Colgans Chips cards. Nothing in what Egan wrote suggests that the square cards were proofs or predecessors.
I've contemplated the 'Pittsburg' vs 'Pittsburgh' thing. It was "Pittsburg" from about 1890 to about 1911. Then it reverted to "Pittsburgh". We know the white border and brown border tobacco cards just have the "g" on the end. What do you guys thing about that?
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