This would be a wildly different way to calculate sets than they did for any other sets. I have never seen any evidence that T42 series 2 (labeled as 1-100), T43, T80 etc. were one big mega set. The ATC journal etc. seem to make it clear they were conceived of, like other distinct T sets, as individual sets. There is evidence they were separate sets and no real evidence that they are one set beyond that you can get to roughly 400 if you add up several different sets together.
Besides the journal and the card backs, it doesn’t make much sense that sets would have different designs and subjects matter if they had a white border, but not if they had a gold border. T205 was being done at the end of the card project when the ATC remnants and ALC/Brett/etc. were ceasing production and the enterprise got complicated and wrapped up in 1912.
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