T206, or not....let's have a continuing conversation....Ty Cobb Smoking Tobacco card

[tedzan]

Originally Posted by parkerj33

Ted, did Russell have a magie? I don't think so. And is his collection solely piedmont? And do we know if he obtained cards after 1910?

I ask because you seem to insinuate that he only bought cards in 1910, and perhaps only piedmonts. So given that
it seems curious that he obtained a cobb/cobb.

Hi Jim

I forgot to respond to your last question. So here goes....Russell's Dad was a Circuit Judge who would often travel to Atlanta.
According to Richard's biography his Dad would occasionally take young Richard with him on these trips to Atlanta. A number
of Cobb/Ty Cobb Tobacco cards have surfaced from the Atlanta area, where I think they were just handed out as promotional
cards for this new Tobacco brand. And, that is how his Dad simply acquired this card for him.

I personally think that the majority of these Cobb cards were never stuffed inside the Ty Cobb Smoking Tobacco tins.


TED Z

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