Shoeless Joe Jax DIVERSION, why isn't he in any 1911-1917 major T or E-card sets ?

[tedzan]

Tim......two more things regarding the T206 Joe Jax enigma......then we move on to another ATC mystery.

1st...."T206 Ed Foster - Charleston"....is his team. Where was Foster born? There were two Ed Foster's in BB during that era.
One is Edward Cunningham Foster (Chicago) and the other is Eddy Lee Foster (Alabama) ?

2nd......Your contention that all subsequent ATC sets are "slaved" to the T206 images may not be totally correct. American
Litho. was printing the 350-only series in the Spring of 1910. Simultaneously, they were printing the T210's. Recall, that 14
of the Southern Leaguer's are "350-only" subjects. So, it isn't certain that these images were T206's before they were T210's.
Three of these (off the top of my head) are Hart, Smith (Shrev.) and Thebo. So, I would not be so sure that all images were
first T206's....because from a printing standpoint the colorless T210 images were first thru the press.


For all you skeptics that have responded here that do not buy a bias against Joe Jax, then let's hear your explanation on this
mystery. The HINDU brand was mainly marketed in New York state and New England states. It's cigarette factory (#649) was
the Kimball plant in Rochester, NY.
Approx. 180-T206's exist with the HINDU back, including all the major stars, except for Ty Cobb. Furthermore, the SWEET CAP-
ORAL 150, Fac. 649 (overprint) series includes all the major stars, except for Ty Cobb. Do you dig where I'm heading with this ?

Well, this intrigue gets better....the T205 Cobb exists with 6 (or 7) backs, except for HINDU. And finally, The T201 set does not
portray Cobb in full picture on the front. This MECCA set relegates Cobb to the dinky picture on the back of Crawford. Oh Yes....
MECCA cigarettes were produced at Factory #649, just like the above brands.

Gentleman, are these clear examples of excluding Cobb due to Northern predjudice......OR WHAT ?

If you think not, I can't wait to hear your rationalizations on this mystery ?


TED Z

[Abravefan11]

Originally Posted by tedzan

1st...."T206 Ed Foster - Charleston"....is his team. Where was Foster born? There were two Ed Foster's in BB during that era.
One is Edward Cunningham Foster (Chicago) and the other is Eddy Lee Foster (Alabama) ?

T206 Ed Foster - Charleston...Edward Lee Foster (b. Georgia)

Originally Posted by tedzan

2nd......Your contention that all subsequent ATC sets are "slaved" to the T206 images may not be totally correct. American
Litho. was printing the 350-only series in the Spring of 1910. Simultaneously, they were printing the T210's. Recall, that 14
of the Southern Leaguer's are "350-only" subjects. So, it isn't certain that these images were T206's before they were T210's.
Three of these (off the top of my head) are Hart, Smith (Shrev.) and Thebo. So, I would not be so sure that all images were
first T206's....because from a printing standpoint the colorless T210 images were first thru the press.

The sets that you have questioned T213, T214, and T215 were not slaves to the images, they were slaves to the 6 color lithograph printing process which T210 were not. Just because they had a Joe Jax image didn't mean that they had six plates to print it in a lithograph format.

And we know for a fact that they did not add any new 6 color prints after the completion of the T206 set to later sets that used the identical images.

And lastly after doing further research today I can tell you that James Lafitte - Macon, and Edward Reagan - New Orleans previously being shown as birth place unknown were both born in Georgia.

And for you Ted, Billy Nattress - Buffalo was born in PA.