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Originally Posted by Runscott
Ted, I want to see the bigger fish you plan on frying.
How did the printing plates survive the end of the T206 printing in 1911, the break-up of the ATC, and the lapses between Coupon card printing, all the way through 1916? (then they disappeared, presumably destroyed) Theories?
edited to add: this might seem too tangential, but I think it's relevant to the T206 vs T213 vs T215 discussion.
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Scott
The American Tobacco Co. did not have the printing plates, the printing plates were the property of the American Lithographic Company. American
Lithographic (like most major printing firms) produced multiple printing plates. I realized this was standard printer's practice in 1983. When a former
Bowman Gum employee walked into a BB card shop in Cherry Hill, NJ with the 7 original printing (32-image) plates which were used to print the 224
cards of the 1954 Bowman BB set. He also had duplicate plates of these 7 plates.
TED Z