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Originally Posted by oldeboo
Interesting, thanks for sharing.
So if the all 48 subjects group from T206 was shipping mid March 1910, that aligns well with the Old Mill ads that mention "baseball pictures" in early March 1910 and can be seen through mid August 1910. That ad seems to vanish, then reappears only a few weeks later down in Texas with a mention of "Texas League baseball pictures." The earlier "baseball pictures" ad seems to never surface again, and the "Texas League baseball pictures" are promoted heavily from early September 1910 through early December 1910.
Ads for Piedmont "baseball pictures" begin to surface in the southern states in late February 1910 and are heavy through September 1910. The same ad pops up less frequently through November 1910. The Piedmont "baseball pictures" were still being promoted while the Old Mill "baseball pictures" were replaced by the "Texas League baseball pictures."
My theory would be that T210 was regionally distributed with a heavy focus on that three month window in late 1910. T210 very well may have been distributed well into 1911 until stock vanished. If T210 was being distributed regionally, it makes sense that it would have been distributed around the same time. Did a series or two fall outside of that window? Maybe...
Looking at the possibility of regional distribution for T210 makes even more sense when you look at the leagues and locations compared to pop reports. Having less known examples of cards from places like rural Kentucky and West Virginia adds up. There is a pretty solid correlation there I believe.
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That add actually ran until September 29 1910 the ledger page says that they discontinued packing them in December 1910 the ads and the ledger pages coincide with the Texas League ads and pretty close to the baseball pictures ad. So they were distributing the old mill T206's until the end of 1910 if the T210's were distributed in 1910 they would of been competing with the T206's for distribution in the Old Mill packs.
Many of the Southern League players in the T206 set are depicted on their teams from the prior year.