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DavidI don't wish to jump on the anti-GAI bandwagon, but I don't understand how a label of 1909-11 could be given to a cigarette pack. As the charts in the link illustrate, that 3 year period does not match with the periods the tax stamps were printed and issued. My assumption, and probably the assumption of other here, is that dates on the label matching the dates of a famous card set are not coincidental.
If a buyer is serious about bidding on the pack, he should ask the seller what the date on the stamp is, or as for an image of the entire stamp. Only the '1909' and '1910' could conceivably be a true 'T206' pack. Even then, these printed dates only narrow the possible windown of time, and do not place a pack sqarely within the T206 period ... As Leon already noted, only the red overprinting can give a definitive date.