Further Thoughts about Red Cobb with Cobb back

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Posted By: JimB

Barry said,
"I think the Cobb back is not consistent with the way T206 was distributed."

It came with tobacco. It was a promotional piece for selling tobacco. What more do you want?

I have said this before, but I will repeat it here: T206 was a rather arbitrary designation for a number of different baseball picture cards inserted as a promotional piece with American Tobacco Company products between 1909-1911. If Ty Cobb brand was part of the ATC and they were produced during those years, then by definition, according to the ATC, it is a T206. Unless we are questioning the entire way ATC categorized cards and we are going to consider Piedmont , Sweet Cap, etc. unique sets (which is a legitimate claim), then I don't see why Ty Cobb brand should be signaled out. It you want to distinguish it because of the gloss on the front, then maybe T206-1.

I would want to see proof that it was produced by Coupon before calling it T213.

What if Sweet Cap 350's had the same gloss? Would we categorize them as T213s?