REA Lot 319 (Piedmont Cigarette Pack)

[Pat R]

There aren't many threads on here about what packs could have t-cards in them so I wanted to add and correct some things in this thread for future research.

The only thing that I can't find information on that would definitely prove that the pack in question couldn't have originally contained a T206 card is the claim that a 12 count pack was illegal during the time period that T206's were distributed. In my opinion all the other reasons in this thread can be explained.

First there's the false claim that T206's were only inserted in 10 count packs.

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another incorrect assumption by some is that the date the act of August 5 1909 law went into effect it didn't actually take effect until July 1 1910.

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As far as the pack having Liggett & Myers on it when you read about the ATC dissolution the American Tobacco Company fought it for years in court and anything that made them seem like less of a monopoly at the time was to their benefit as far as I know putting or leaving Liggett & Myers on the pack wouldn't have been illegal. Another member posted something similar regarding this.

Originally Posted by Blitzu

I also have a theory on how the L&M could exist on the sides of the box prior to 1911...

If you read this page http://www.jimsburntofferings.com/pa...nabrights.html

You'll see that Duke wanted to keep the ownership of a union made cigarette being sold in the south so he may have put and kept the name L&M on the box instead of the ATC to avoid outrage.

Yet I still don't think the box listed above was from the T206 era since it bears the name "L&M successor". That still makes me believe that it was produced after the Trust was dissolved.

Thoughts?


UPDATE: I think I found my answer on the side of one of the T91 cards which were produced by Carolina Brights in 1907... if you look at the pack on the side it says Well-Whitehead Tobacco Co. then underneath, instead of L&M it says Wilson N.C. USA.

That fits inline with the theory above that they left he name Well-Whitehead on the boxes and never printed the ATC name... so it's safe to say that the Carolina Brights boxes with Wilson N.C. USA printed on the side of the boxes with a 1910-11 tax stamp could have contained a T206 card.

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