Say you had a time machine...

[JollyElm]

Based on a mention in another thread, I started reading "Inside T206 - A Collector’s Guide to the Classic Baseball Card Set" by Scot A. Reader, and I love it!!!!

So...say you had a time machine and you could only go back to 1909 (and, of course, return on the current date). You'd research the exact clothing you would need in order to fit in and you would stock up on as much pre-1909 currency and coins as you could hold, etc., etc. Where in the country would you go and what exact date would you travel back to?

The reasoning is this. Geographically speaking, where was the Honus Wagner found? Was it released all over the country or only in some markets? I know ads featuring a picture of said card were run almost into the fall, but had the supplies of that card dried up much earlier in the year? When exactly did the T-206 cards start appearing in cigarette packs? The frenzy of young boys gobbling them all up could very well become a hindrance to a time traveler's efforts to stockpile them, so what timeframe would we be looking at? Early summer? Late spring?

I'm obviously concentrating solely on the Wagner card here, but if you were looking for Cobb and others, where and when would you set the time machine for??