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Originally Posted by Brent G.
I just got into tobacco-era items over the past year and was wondering about T206 print run numbers -- and the report included in this thread said it could've been 370 million.
It also mentions people collecting and X-raying unopened cig packs from the era. Has anyone out there found an unopened pack that contains/contained a T206? Would love to hear about it!
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There is no surviving record of the print run - we do have original records for production figures of some non-baseball T card sets from the American Tobacco Company's spate of sets, from personal ledger journal of one of the printers and some court records, but none for T206. The 370 million comes from an extrapolation that is rooted in an assumption that every pack contained a T206, which we know is not true at all.