First off,my apologies for bringing up a subject that has "been beat to death",but after reading this thread over and over,as well as searching the archives on American Lithographic,I still seem to have the same questions that Robert asked about in his original post.
Refering to post #22: "The plants are quite generally equiped with machinery for cutting,folding,labeling,printing,and filling packages of this description".
Printing what? This really makes me wonder about the printing of the backs.I completely understand ALC printed the tobacco cards-but are we really so sure about the backs?
Leon's Mullaney/Young sure does make you think all of the printing was done at the ALC,but does it exclude all possibility that the backs could have been printed elsewhere?What does the portion of the letter in post#22 that I quoted above mean?What were they printing?
Since the backs are only printed in one color,would it be too far fetched to think the factories may have printed the backs on these cards?
Another interesting thing I've noticed,is a few things in Mr.Lipset's Encyclopedia of Baseball Cards Volume 3...........
T206 (page 55, under Color Varieties)
"In a set as wide in scope as T206 there are an endless amount of color variations.Printed in a variety of places,printing errors,freaks,and the like were bound to occur,and they did".
T202 Triple Folders (page 31)
"The cards are known with black and red printing on the backs.Not commonly known is that different factories caused this.All the red back varieties were produced at Factory No.30 and all the black printed backs came from Factory No.649".
T212 Obaks (page 77)
"All were printed by the same factory in the 1st District of California as the back of any card will indicate". Note*I am well aware the ALC didn't print these cards.
T201 Mecca Baseball Folder Series (page 28)
"T201's were printed with two different factories on the back of the card.At the bottom of the rear of the card can be found "Factory No.649 1st Dist N.Y." or "Factory No.30 2nd. Dist. N.Y.".Forty-Nine of the cards were printed at both places,the "Dougherty-Lord" card will only be found with "Factory 649".
Could Mr.Lipset have been refering to the printing of the "backs" of the cards in all of the examples I just quoted?Just curious-TedZ,please don't get frustrated with me on this,I have been trying to convince myself about the ALC printing the backs of these tobacco cards,and I have,after scouring the archives,not been convinced.
Sincerely,Clayton
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