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Originally Posted by Carter08
One thing I was wondering is, and I am assuming all the different cigarette companies represented on the backs were not owned by the same company, did they all contract out to a company to make these cards? Were there any cigarette companies back then that said no and sold packs without cards?
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All the T206 brands were owned by the American Tobacco Company. T206 is only one of many sets issued over ~3 years by many ATC brands and printed in a complex relationship with New York Lithographers. The American Lithographic Company, Brett Lithography and possibly others printed the ATC project cards. The rights of living subjects seem to have been procured by the lithography companies, not the tobacco company. The cards printed by these lithographers seem to have included sets done for non-ATC companies, but no individual set was issued to both ATC brands and brands not associated with the ATC.