T207 printing
Good points, Ted and Marc. Perhaps American Litho was unable to strike an agreement with Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co. after the break-up of ATC. If I was with ATC, and had been using American Litho, I would not want American Litho to just take the authorizations from the baseball players and create a set for Liggett & Myers. That would be disloyal to ATC, and there was probably a contract between ATC and American Litho about the development of the T206 set. ATC & Liggett became competitors in 1911. As we've shown, most or all of the T207's were distributed by Liggett & Myers, not ATC.
Furthermore, the T207 cards seem very different from T206's and other issues. Another observation is that none of the images used are the same as the T206 images, I don't believe. It certainly seems likely, as Ted said, that a different printer & designer was used. If American Litho already had the authorization and the artwork, they could have included Cobb, Eddie Collins, Evers and other stars that were in T206. They could have easily made sepia-toned images from the T206 images. But they didn't.
That's why, Ted, I feel the ATC break-up had an influence on T207.
Ron
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