Subtle differences in the T206 set's 15 repeated designs

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Posted By: Ted Zanidakis

American Lithographic Company in NYC designed the 522 cards in the T206 set by producing 507 different "gems"
of artwork. Two were captioned erroneously (Magie & Doyle Nat'l) so they are just "misfits" of the 507. Of the 15,
the first 11 repeated designs shown here are variations of the original ones issued in the the 150 Series. These
repeated designs (or "twins") have different background colors, uniform changes, or reflect a team change (and
some are slightly cropped from their 150 Series counterpart).

The first 6 subjects (of the 11) on display here are the SUPER PRINTS which are in the 350/460 Series and can
be found with as many as 24 different Tobacco brand backs representative of the 350/460 Series (except that
their American Beauty 350 back is the Frame version, and these 6 cards do not exist with American Beauty 460
backs).



....................150 Series.......................350 Series................460 Series





...................150 Series.......................350-only Series




...................150 Series.......................350 Series..................460 Series



................................................35 0-only Series..................460 Series



These St. Louis variations were printed only with POLAR BEAR backs.






TED Z