Texas Tommys from Cardinet Candy Co. ??

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Posted By: fkw

Hi all, I received an eMail about a week ago from a lady named Melissa Cardinet. She asked me if I had any cards called Texas Tommys (E224) that were made for her grandfathers candy company named "Cardinet Candy Co." of Oakland CA. (later moving a few miles east to Concord CA.). I was surprised to here an actual candy company connected to the Texas Tommy cards. As far as I have even heard the Texas Tommy cards origin is unknown, with most examples surfacing here in Northern California. I asked Melissa where she got her info, and she told me from the set list on OBC (link below).
http://www.oldbaseball.com/refs/typecards.txt

Can anyone confirm the 1914 E224 Texas Tommy cards are from this candy company? And how did they figure this one out??

What I did find out from some research is "Texas Tommy" was the name of a swing dance of the times in the 1909-1910 era beginning in the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco (5 miles from Oakland).
http://www.streetswing.com/histmain/z3tex1.htm

Frank