T206 question

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Posted By: J Hull

The Uzit lots in last spring's REA sale had 33 cards. They were a group that had been assembled by the consignor's grandfather, if I remember correctly. I spoke to Rob Lifson about them at the time and he told me that the consignor's grandfather had lived in a poor, mostly immigrant neighborhood in New York City when the cards were collected. I wouldn't be at all surprised if Uzit cigarettes were strictly limited to NYC in 1911, or alternatively, that packs of them that held T206s were only sold there. Given the very brief time period that cards were included with Uzits, it seems likely that there couldn't have been a whole lot of geographical dispersal.

Jamie