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Posted By: Corey R. Shanus

It is quite possible P&S did not create a new Atlantics card depicting the 1870 team, and sold instead the 1868 team. If that is the case, I wonder if they changed the mount to delete the 1868 description since that would be at odds with the ad referring to these images as being from 1870. On reflection, this explanation of the 1868 team being reused might make more sense than there being an 1870 Atlantic team card that has yet to be discovered. The only probelm with this theory, though, is why then doesn't the ad refer to the Lowells team. That card is known to exist (from 1868). Maybe by 1871, since the flame on that team essentially went out by 1870, P&S didn't bother mentioning a team for which they perceived there to be little or no demand.