Posted By:
Frank WakefieldGuys, read Ted's link.
It isn't all about the busting of the American Tobacco Trust. Why stop gold borders to make brown borders because of that??
If that was the reason then we wouldn't have brown border cards. Or, with brown border cards starting up, they seem unfinished to and you can't blame that one on trustbusting at that point in time.
I think that after the trust breakup, the printing was economized a bit, going to the new brown border style. AND, it is about the money and the consent of players...
I think they start up the brown border cards and then just give up on it because it is too much trouble for one or a few brands to fool with. With multiple brands in an issue it seems that the brands are still connected, at a time when the companies were supposed to be severed and showing independence. So they just gave up on cards. Otherwise, why no cigarette cards as we knew them in 1915, or immediately after The Great War??