Consider a T206 OLD MILL sub-set.....Survey

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Posted By: Don

Another great research thread that needs a bump.

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Posted By: Dave Hornish

Were the Old Mill Southern Leaguers marketed independently of the "regular" Old Mill backs? Or could you find both at points in a pack of Old Mills?

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Posted By: Ted Zanidakis

My experience indicates that the So. Lge. Old Mill's were issued prior the regular Old Mill's.

In recent years I have acquired two original T206 collections....one with 400+ Piedmont 150 cards which
included 26 So. Lger's....all of which were Old Mill's.

Th 2nd collection also was predominantly Piedmont's (220) and 16 Old Mill So. Lger's.

Perhaps, some one will chime in with more definite information.


TED Z

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Posted By: Scot

Ted,

I was thinking about this just this morning. The Old Mill ads that ran in several southern and border state newspapers from February-June 1910 show the southern leaguer Juan Viola emerging from an Old Mill pack but state that two pictures of "baseball players" are included in each pack. This may suggest that big leaguers and southern leaguers were comingled in Old Mill packs. Recall that in the earlier 1909 Hindu ads, ATC was very careful to distinguish between major leaguers and southern leaguers in its advertising.

Scot

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Bumping to see if there are any updates to the Old Mill count.