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Originally Posted by Jobu
Cool find! PSA shows two other 1909 cards for Raymond, Colgan's (which isn't a cigarette and so probably isn't what the author is referring to) and also T204. What do you think about the chance that this is referring to his T204?
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Hey Bryan, I was hoping one of the T204 guys would reply. The claim is that the T204 distribution was in or around the Massachusetts area and any ads that I've found support that.
I found ads like these that ran in newspapers from May to July 1910. All of the ads I found were in papers from Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York and Vermont nothing from the west or south for Ramly cigarettes.
Ramly The_Boston_Globe_Thu__Jul_14__1910_.jpg
Ramly The_Burlington_Free_Press_Wed__Jul_6__1910_.jpg
I also found these
Boston Globe May 6 1973
Ramly The_Boston_Globe_Sun__May_6__1973_.jpg
Boston Globe Oct 9 1981
Ramly The_Boston_Globe_Fri__Oct_9__1981_ (1).jpg
It make sense to me that the newspaper clipping is about T206's because at that time Raymond would have been tough to find because the print group 1 subjects that Raymond wasn't in would have already been distributed for 6 or 7 months and print group 2 would have just began distribution but of course they wouldn't have known that.