Baby Got "Backs" T206

[tedzan]

The W. R Irby Branch (New Orleans, LA) introduced their COUPON tobacco brand in 1908. However, it's my understanding that this brand was not
an American Tobacco Company (ATC) Trademark till sometime after the T213-1 cards (circa Spring 1910) were issued.


........................... 1910 .................................................. .......... 1914 .................................................. ............ 1919




The F. R. Penn Tobacco Co. was located in Reidsville, North Carolina (Factory #33). The F. R. Penn Tobacco Co. was purchased by ATC in 1911.



........... Factory 33 - 4th Dist. of N.C. ............................................... Feb/Mar 1910




The "PIRATE" brand cigarettes were produced in Bristol & London, England and the T215 type cards were inserted in them (circa 1912).





For more info on this "PIRATE" issue, check-out this thread.......

http://www.net54baseball.com/showthr...5+pirate+cards



TED Z

[Abravefan11]

Originally Posted by tedzan

The F. R. Penn Tobacco Co. was purchased by ATC in 1911.

TED Z

ATC purchased F.R. Penn in 1903.

If I'm understanding the timeline correctly the former F.R. Penn Tobacco Company was replaced by the newly incorporated F.R. Penn Tobacco Company in September 1903. The purpose of this reincorporation was to partner with The American Tobacco Company and have them be the majority shareholder. The F.R. Penn Tobacco Company continued to be run as a separate company from the trust and ATC attempted to keep their controlling interest a secret. In 1911 when the trust was broken into several companies F.R. Penn was taken over by the new smaller American Tobacco Company.

There are board members that know a lot more about this subject than I do and maybe they'll have something to add or correct anything I missed.