T201 Mecca - Master Set/New Discovery/New Theory

[rsst206]

After looking over my set my Cole/kling is 649 along with Lord Daugherty.
I picked up these 2 beauties 20 years ago but getting the rest in this condition was difficult. Both 649's

[Marslife]

Hey Fellas!

Thanks Zach, gr8 synopsis of this super fun set!

gotta love the power of this board and GENEROSITY of the board members! Upon reading this post, Mr. Brian Parker (brianp-beme) noted that he had a Kling/Cole Mecca Factory 30 in his complete set. He graciously offered it to me in return for a similar condition Kling/Cole F649 to maintain his full set and to help me with my quest!!! This done out of the goodness of his heart and spirit of cooperation. Not often that something like this happens, I know that the card God's will smile upon Mr. Parker someday and hope that he will stumble upon a magical card find that will fulfill his collecting wishes!

Thanks Brian! you are a true Gentleman!

So that being said, I have finally completed my Master set quest with all 50 cards with F649 and all 50 cards with F30 backs!

added bonus that there is a sliver of another player in the right side of the Kling/Cole F30 that with a little research I should be able to ID the player/sheet mate.... great stuff...

So we have now two known Kling/Coles with F30 backs.... hope we can dig up a few more out there...

here are some pics of the new acquisition:

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Thanks AGAIN Brian!

Cliff

[RCMcKenzie]

That's great, Cliff and Brian. Fun to see a complete Master set....Rob

[chlankf]

Thanks to the work of many here, I jumped into work on this master set. I'm close but you can all image two that I'm missing for sure. Please remember me when the next ones pop their heads up. Fortunately, with information on this board I concentrated on fact 30 when building my initial set.

Congratulations gentleman great accomplishment. I hope to someday join your elusive club.

Craig

[Marslife]

Hey T201 Brethren!

Picked up the third know cards of Kling/Cole and Lord/Dougherty in the Birmingham Auction (thanks Scott) :-)

They are in rough shape but factory number is visible!

Gotta be more out there, at least one sheets worth!

Enjoy!

Cliff

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[brianp-beme]

Great to see a 3rd Factory 30 Kling/Cole poke out from its shell. We went from "Not Kling Cole" to the "King Cole Trio" in a relatively short time. Congrats!

Brian (sometimes I believe I exist solely to share such pithy nonsense)

[chriskim]

Are there any unopened Mecca tobacco packs known to exist that match all the elements of having a T201 inside? Would love to see a pic of those packs look like.