T206, or not....let's have a continuing conversation....Ty Cobb Smoking Tobacco card

[JustinD]

Originally Posted by tedzan

ATC tobacco brand.... Ty Cobb Smoking Tobacco ....this card was issued in 1910. IMO, it should be classified as a T206.

Admittedly I am far from the expert level on T206 that many are, but this has always been my belief for all the back variations. I just see there being one set with different advertising back variations, the Cobb back is just another.

Unless the entire classification standard is changed something like M101's with different advertising backs having different catalog subset numbers, I have to be in with Ted here. I also don't see the former ever happening as it would be chaos with grading and people would grumble up a storm.

[Pat R]

Originally Posted by JustinD

Admittedly I am far from the expert level on T206 that many are, but this has always been my belief for all the back variations. I just see there being one set with different advertising back variations, the Cobb back is just another.

Unless the entire classification standard is changed something like M101's with different advertising backs having different catalog subset numbers, I have to be in with Ted here. I also don't see the former ever happening as it would be chaos with grading and people would grumble up a storm.

If the Cobb was added to the T206 set and you had a master set of all of the currently confirmed t206 combinations in front of you with all the necessary information and you were asked to separate them each time by the following

Brand - you would have 1 Cobb back and the next smallest stack would be 60 (Uzit)

Factory number - 1 Cobb (factory 33) and the next smallest stack would be 200 (factory 649)

What company the brand was Owned by in 1910 - American Tobacco Co. = 5281 T206's F. R. Penn = 1 T206 (Ty Cobb tobacco)