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Posted By: J Hull

One thing that's struck me since we had that discussion of the Cobb tin is that the Ty Cobb backed cards have the factory information on them, Factory 33, 4th District NC. Which matches the information on the surviving Ty Cobb tins. For me, that's some evidence to link the two. But it also raises the point that if the cards were designed as handouts and were not intended to be packed in a tobacco product, why would that say the factory number on them? Perhaps they were designed to be placed in the tins, but then for some reason were not? Or perhaps they really were placed in some small number of tins? Or both?