T207....indeed a strange set....let' talk about it ?

[marcdelpercio]

Thanks for that info Ron. That would seem to exclude Coupon from my theory as one of the Anonymous brands (unless they simply chose not to advertise for some other reason) but all other brands would still fit and if Red Cross did indeed return to Lorillard, that may explain the extremely short print run. I also find it interesting that Piedmont was one of the L&M brands yet is not an advertising back on T207's after being the flagship brand for T206 and T205. I wonder if there is a chance that they were the Anonymous Factory 25 brand as they primarily distributed from Factory 25 on the T205's and T206's. Maybe Piedmont and Coupon were originally set to be T207 advertising brands along with their fellow L&M brands of Recruit, Cycle, Broadleaf, and Napoleon but something occurred to cause that brand to be removed from display.