Can Southern Leaguers have a Piedmont 150 back

[brianp-beme]

All T206 Piedmont Southern League cards will have the Piedmont 350 back, so any of your possible explanations is indeed a possibility, except for you being wrong about never seeing one.

Brian

[steve B]

It's probably not, either a wrong scan or rebacked or something.

But, never say never.
One of the 150 only cards has a single known example with a P350 back.
I have a thought that Piedmont needed so many cards that occasionally a handful of sheets intended for other series were used up to fill minor shortfalls in a Piedmont shipment.

More common, are cards that appear to be rebacked with a paper layer of a different brand. Possibly also as a fill in or using up finished sheets that ended up as overstock.

[Cory]

It was cheap enough to arouse my curiosity. I'll blacklight it and put it under a loupe when i get it. Then post it here. Seller confirmed it was a 150 back. If nothing else I'll have a fake to learn from.

[T206Collector]

Nope. If a Southern Leaguer has a Piedmont back then it will be 350 Series. Southern Leaguers were printed in "Group 6" as described here:

https://t206resource.com/Print%20Group%206.html

The first printing and distribution of the southern league group was with Hindu brand cigarettes beginning in August 1909. Though advertisements indicate that all 48 subjects were to be produced at this time, only 34 were printed due to a short production run and printing limitations. Per the Hindu advertisements, these southern league subjects were packaged and distributed separately from the major-league subjects of the 150 Series.

After the Hindu campaign, the 150 Series concluded and the 350 Series began. During the first printings of the 350 Series, the complete southern league group of 48 subjects were printed with Old Mill and Piedmont brand backs. The Old Mill (Southern Leagues) back advertisement was designed and printed specifically for use with this group and was applied only to sheets with these subjects. This is evidence that the 48 southern league subjects were printed on sheets composed of only southern league subjects. These preprinted front sheets had either the Old Mill (SL) or Piedmont 350 backs applied. After these early 350 Series printings, the southern league print group was discontinued.