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Posted By: Ted Zanidakis

We can all agree that T206's are American Tobacco Company (ATC) Base Ball premiums accompanying a variety
of T-brand tobacco products during the 1909 to early 1911 era. ATC's associate, the American Lithographic Co.,
designed, printed, & shipped these BB cards to their respective Tobacco Districts to be inserted in their Cigarette
(or otherwise) packs. The pictures of the various Subjects are identical, regardless of the back advertisements,
and the one common denominator that I believe defines the 1909-early 1911 "T206 era" is that their captions are
printed with BROWN ink.

ATC's divesture occured in December 1911.....T206's were history by then. However, American Lithographic Co.
(ALC) continued producing a variety of Tobacco product premiums (including BB cards). But now.....post-1911,
ALC started captioning these "T206 look-alike" cards with BLUE ink (for whatever reasons).

At this point we no longer think "T206's" and start classifying these cards as T-xxx sets.

LEON
Sorry, to differ with you ole buddy....but, the 68 cards in the COUPON TOBACCO set (1910) are T206 "cousins".

T-Rex TED