I agree and I believe it was just easier for him to catalog the Type 1 with the other 2 types and have their own designation. If Hindu had a release in 1914 and 1919 like the type 2 & 3 Coupons would Hindu have it's own designation? It's seems obvious to me that under the ATC umbrella of 16 brands of cigarettes, a 17th should be added since that brand (Coupon) looks just like a T206 and was released during the same period (1910). Furthermore, Factory 3, Louisiana is on the back of the Type 1 Coupon and we know that that factory known as the Irby Branch was owned by ATC at one time. All the other 16 brands were under the ATC umbrella. Logic simply dictates this is another brand that should be with the other 16 brands known as T206. What Burdick did was probably just lump the Type 1 in with the other 2 types for clarity to have their own designation as a group. If he were alive today, I believe he would chuckle and make the correction. If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, it's probably a duck.
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Originally Posted by rman444
T213-1 could be classified as a T206, and certainly fits the mold as far as size and surface finish even more so than American Beauty and Cobb Back. If not for the subsequent issue of T213-2 and -3, a T213-1 coupon back would more than likely have been only known as just another super rare T206 back.
Burdick cataloged his tens of thousands of cards some 80 years ago, without the help of internet, national card conventions and the far reaching arms of today's media. To think that Burdick, if he were alive today, would have the arrogance to think that he could not have made any mistakes, or that he would not have wanted or accepted updates/corrections to his ACC based on 8 decades of new finds, research and debate, is hard for me to believe.
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