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Posted By: Ted Zanidakis

I completely agree with you....you are the man on this forum, when it comes to T-packs.

I have an interesting question for you. Going back to early Cigarette pack production (circa 1800's) and prior to BB
cards (or other types of premiums), a plain cardboard stiffiner was inserted in the packs. Then in the late 1800's,
when lithography was in it's peak, some clever person came up with the idea of premiums. In the 1880's they had a
thick premium (i.e., A & G, N162, Old Judge cards). By 1909 this "stiffiner" premium became thinner. By the 19-teens,
the premiums (T213's and T216's) were paper thin.

Can you explain this change ?

TED Z