That is a very good point, I never thought of it like that. I know I will probably never be able to afford a stengel on a public school teacher salary but I will still try to collect the series 6 and just pretend it dosen't exist. But I guess that is a very good theory about how the set was distributed. I assume the set was distuributed in pouch tobbacco, and it is my opinion that many people in kentucky in 1910 still made their own smokes in that period, especially in more isolated areas of the state, and many may have simply been ruined by never being pulled from the pouch. That is a theory however which I have not reserached.

Tony