It seems to me that the likeliest scenario is that all of the sets discussed here were done by a single printer. It doesn't make much sense otherwise; one printing firm gets the artwork done, designs the cards and captions, and then others... what, pirate the set by getting their hands on the cards, recreating the images perfectly and setting up to reprint them? It doesn't make sense that way, hard to see the profit in going to so much effort at the time. E90, E92, E101, E102, these sets are all very likely the same printer. The wrong sheets tell us E78, E26 and E8 had to be done by the same team.
We do know the name of a printer used by American Caramel, who issued E90. The E125 die cut stands from mid 1910 tell us P.R. Warren made both series of them. I have been diving into Peter R. Warren's printing and paper goods making firm of Lowell, Warrensville, Boston and NYC because of this connection in an effort to tie their NY office to American Caramel to resolve some lingering mysteries from the V153 research.
We should not assume and make the deductive leap that because Peter Warren's firm did the E125's that they did all of American Caramel's cards (and thus likely this grouping of sets discussed in this thread). It forms the solitary real clue I have at present though, and may lead to a real resolution. P.R. Warren was in some serious financial trouble in late 1910, but were big enough to have at least 4 offices and locations. I have always thought it probable the caramel sets were not authorized unlike the tobacco issues, but if Warren had an NY office and did do American Caramel's cards, these issues may have been authorized by the players after all, in accord with the 1904 NY State law.
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