Jason, my understanding and current belief is that the red border Old Mill cards were distributed regionally. There was a bit of nationwide distribution, but little. For the most part, to the extent that different series are found in old collections, it was due to a bit of trading, or traveling. Consider when the good Senator was a kid, and he had an Old Mill smoking uncle who traveled a bit... might not that uncle buy a few packs of cigarettes as he traveled around, and wouldn't he save those 'foreign' red border cards for his fanatic nephew?
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