[tedzan]

Sorry guys, but I don't agree with the contention that the 1911 divesture of the ATC monopoly had anything to do with
the make up of the T207 set. I base this on the fact that American Lithographic continued printing white-bordered sets
(T213, T214, and T215) well into 1919. And, their T205, T201, and T202 sets from 1911 to 1912. One constant factor in
all these sets is the repetiveness of the same subjects (stars and commons) from the T206 set.

Therefore, as I've speculated in my initial post here....this set was not printed by American Litho. For whatever reasons,
ATC contracted a different printer to produce these cards. And, therein lies the enigma of why so many of the usual stars
and commons particular to all the above noted Tobacco sets are not in the T207. In my opinion, this is really the only ex-
planation that makes sense.....what are your thoughts on this ?

Eventually, given a sufficient amount of research, we will discover who printed the T207's.


TED Z