E95 HW card? First post.

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Long time collector and lurker, first time on a baseball card forum. Please don’t dump on me for this post! I know what I got. (Bad joke). The story of an impossible card:

Backstory: my 78 year old father has had this card for over 70 years, so roughly since 1946. It was given to him by his grandfather, who got them from his uncle.
From my dad:
“No one who handled this card in the past had any idea of card values. It did come from Brooklyn source, an uncle of grandpa’s, when grandpa was very young. Came with large collection of baseball and college cards. And came in old wooden cigar box with no writing on box. I got it circa when I was under 10 years old when I was staying over weekends with them.”

Let me be clear, I know this card is questionable as it sits. I’ve done some research, from what I know: Philadelphia caramel in NJ did all e95 production in one facility, so physically impossible to have a tobacco back on a candy card? Additionally The t206 cards had various backs, but even the HW of t206 never came w the 350 back, etc.

My leading theory, including motivation, is that this was a card cut from the ca. 1913 notebook series and a back slapped on it to “make it a a real card” for some kid in period. Whomever did it did not know the 150/350 series production details of the t206 series either, and just slapped on what they had at that time. The borders appear slimmer than normal. I do not have card in hand to measure thickness or length x width. I will during the holidays.

Question:
1. is there any information above that could be untrue regarding how this card could come to be regarding production and e95/t206 series?
2. Is there ANY possibility as to how this card could be a REAL card, i.e. an e95 with a 350 tobacco back?

I’ve found no there instances of e95 cards with 350 (or even 150) tobacco backs.
No other cards from the group that was inherited long ago have similar impossible combinations (I.e. no other cards were cut from the notebook cover list with impossible backs within this collection). All other cards in this collection are standard combination fronts and backs with standard border thickness.

I know even as a common e95 w sc back this is not that valuable given its condition. So there’s that as well.