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Posted By: Richard

Dan,

Interesting discussion.

"I have never seen a Virginia Extra back that I was convinced was machine cut -- suggesting, to me, at least, that they may have, instead, all been hand cut from some sort of advertising piece"

I don't know of any sheet cut advertising pieces which have a back matching up with the front with the proper size (back advertisement perfectly matching in size to the front). Usually they are all either blank back or have some odd wording indicating much larger text on the sheet?

"Are you aware of any other 20th Century pre-World War I tobacco card set (other than T216) in which the cards do not bear a factory number?"

From just browsing the T section of the Old Cardboard Website:

T209-1
T215 Pirate
T217