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Posted By: JimB

I have discussed this with Marc Macrae as well, but I am not convinced by his argument that the shallack (sp?) coating on the front, alone, makes it a different issue unto itself. It has the same factory and district designations as other T206s and exactly the same front image as any other red background Cobb, including the brown lettering of the name. The shallack on the front could just be an anomoly on the Ty Cobb brand, but does that mean it is not a T206. I would think that if Ty Cobb brand was a brand of the American Tobacco Company which issued the set and it is identical to other cards in the set in all other ways and was issued during the same period, that this is simply an anomoly, but does not eliminate its place in the T206 set.
JimB