T206 Reference / Reflections.....Tuesday Nite Trivia

[tedzan]

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........ Piedmont ......... Sovereign ....... Sweet Caporal___The "House" that created these Tobacco cards____POLAR BEAR .......... Hindu ....... American Beauty


Seldom seen are AMERICAN BEAUTY (AB) cards that are the standard size T206 dimensions..... 1 1/2" x 2 5/8". If you have any, please show them here.

I have never understood why American Lithographic cut the AB cards narrower. The AB cigarette packs were the ATC standard size containing 10 cigarettes.

If anyone here has an idea why AB cards were cut narrower, please clue us in.
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Of the 122 cards in my T206 collection with AB backs, this Davy Jones measures: 1 15/32" x 2 5/8". The back is perfectly centered, which is quite unusual.

The search is on.....for I think I may have more AMERICAN BEAUTY cards that are "fat"


TED Z

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