REA Lot 319 (Piedmont Cigarette Pack)

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Posted By: Richard Dwyer

Upon further investigation, I found out that T79's were too big to fix in a T206 box.

If you have a "Series of 1909" tax stamp with the right factory number, district & state, you have an authenticated T206 box. It's when you have a "Series of 1910" tax stamp (With August 5th. 1909 at the bottom), is where you have problems authenticating. Not only were T206's distributed in the following boxes, non sports cards were also distributed in these boxes for the years 1910-1911:

T42 (Bird Series):

American Beauty Factory 42, 4th. District NC 1910-1911
Cycle Factory 25, 2nd. District VA 1910-1911
Old Mill Factory 25, 2nd. District VA 1910-1911
Piedmont Factory 25, 2nd. District VA 1910-1911
Sovereign Factory 25, 2nd. District VA 1910-1911
Sweet Caporal Factory 25, 2nd. District VA 1910-1911
Sweet Caporal Factory 42, 4th. District NC 1910-1911

T58 (Fish Series):

Piedmont Factory 42, 4th. District NC 1910-1911
Sovereign Factory 25, 2nd. District VA 1910-1911
Sweet Caporal Factory 25, 2nd. District VA 1910-1911
Sweet Caporal Factory 30, 2nd. District NY 1910

T80 (Military Series 1-50):

Lenox Factory 30, 2nd. District NY 1910-1911
Uzit Factory 30, 2nd. District NY 1910-1911



Doesn't matter if you had overprinting with a 1910 or 1911 date, you still can't authenticate what was in these boxes. I also noticed all my boxes have "Series of 1910". Maybe Jon can add to or verify my findings.