If you look at the players and their teams for the -1 cards, it matches up fairly well with 1910 and T206's series 350... both the team designations as well as the artwork. Johnny Evers is with Chicago and Hub Perdue is with Nashville. Hub doesn't appear in the -2 Coupons, Evers does with a Boston caption, his new team. List the players in -1, look at the teams with which they're depicted, then look at what the captions say for the -2 cards, and you'll see that -1 Coupons are issued after T206s got started, about in the middle of the 350 series. The -2s are produced 2 or 3 years after that. And the -3s half a dozen years or more. My recollection is that the thinking was among old collectors was that -3s were part of a regional pricing strategy, that was eventually abandoned, around WW I.
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