Further Thoughts about Red Cobb with Cobb back

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Posted By: barrysloate

Jim- no, I am not actually saying it should be a Coupon. It's not that either.

And yes, that it was distributed with a tobacco product and was promotional are two of the attributes it shares with T206.

But here is where it differs. Any of the other 15 brands issued hundreds of different players as a means of getting consumers to continually buy its product. If we agree that is true, then after you've purchased your first pack of Ty Cobbs your set is complete, no need to buy any more. I think it was a promotional item, but I'm not even sure it came with the tins. Quite possibly when it first debuted, a consumer could get a sample card but that offer disappeared quickly. Even Drum cigarettes have hundreds of surviving examples. The total number of surviving Cobbs is so miniscule that I doubt it had much of a distribution at all. I just think there was something totally different about how they got into circulation, though I admit I don't know exactly how.