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Originally Posted by Potomac Yank
Don't you think that the Penn people would have had an ad somewhere in the whole State of Georgia telling folks to pick up a Ty Cobb card with the purchase of a Ty Cobb Cut Plug Tin? ..... even though it's chewing tobacco. 
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First off we know it wasn't only a chewing tobacco. It was sold as a smoking tobacco that we know could also be chewed.
You would think the Penn folks would have advertised the card if they went through the trouble of making it specifically for this product but as someone said in another thread:
"I think we are trying to impute 2010 knowledge and logic on 1910 baseball cards. They will NEVER match." - Jim VB
The advertising we have seen to date is very limited. Only one real advertisement that was repeated for a month.
That advertisement did say: "Now on the market at 10 cents the package."
So we know it went on sale. It just didn't last and didn't even garner a second advertising run which could have included information about the card insert.