T206 Sovereign distributed in United Kingdom?

[brianp-beme]

Recently on ebay there was a seller from England that had a group of close to 50 T206 cards. All the cards had Sovereign backs (many of them were from the tougher 460 series).

http://www.ebay.com/sch/lampard-livi...&LH_Complete=1

Has anyone else noticed previous groupings of T206 Sovereigns from the UK (or another grouping of strictly one brand)? Does this hint at the possibility that the cards may have had some sort of limited distribution overseas?

Brian

[tedzan]

Approx. 4 years ago I bought some T206 Sovereign cards from a guy in England.

I don't think it was this guy, though. I'll try to dig thru my records and see who it was.


TED Z

[Abravefan11]

Brian - I've bought a number of T206's from sellers in the UK but haven't noticed any particular grouping of backs. Off the top of my head I remember buying a couple of Sweet Cap 150 No.649 OP's from the seller rarecigarettecards last year.

In the ACC there is a set of non-sport cards with Sovereign backs that are grouped with the tobacco wars cards in the high T numbers. I have read where some people think these may have been distributed overseas but I haven't been able to confirm this. Here's the back of one.



These cards were produced when the Sovereign brand was owned by the Universal Tobacco Company. ATC bought the rights to the Sovereign brand in August 1904 when the Universal Tobacco Company was broken up and auctioned off by court order.

It would be interesting if proof was found of overseas distributions of T206's.

[frankbmd]

I won several of these recent Ebay auctions. The seller indicated to me that he won the lot in an auction, but which auction was not asked or revealed. Do they have tobacco card auctions in England??? I suspect they might.

[Bocabirdman]

Originally Posted by frankbmd

I won several of these recent Ebay auctions. The seller indicated to me that he won the lot in an auction, but which auction was not asked or revealed. Do they have tobacco card auctions in England??? I suspect they might.

I bid on a couple but got shut out. It was odd that EVERY card was a Sovereign regardless of where he aquired the pile.

[scooter729]

I won one of the cards and received it today - they definitely are real and not reprints or anything else, although the card I won may have a very slight trim to the bottom border (this was visible in the auction scan, so no surprise to me).

[mrvster]

got outbid on a few....thought they went a little steep

[t206hound]

The prelim grade on the Oldring (S460) I won from that set of auctions came back a 45.