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06-23-2010, 08:08 PM
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Adding to my post above, the my belief is that the manufacturer of Mono was probably a small time company that more or less skirted the law and did not comply.
I also agree with you assessment of the manufacturer being located in San Fran or Oakland. However, I still would venture to guess that the majority of Mono smokers may have been located in the L.A. area and so Mono had the greatest distribution in that area.
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06-23-2010, 09:45 PM
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Mono
Why would a small company risk a huge fine and forfeiture of product when it would have been a simple matter to add the Factory number? Just because they are small would not be a reason to try and skirt the law.
Perhaps we can speculate that they were not aware of the law, and perhaps were caught violating it. That might explain why this brand is so rare and the cards few.
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06-24-2010, 07:07 AM
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Excellent article-thanks Jon for sharing it.
Any possibility they never made it to market and were merely a "dry run" and only done in house? I could see that and then if marketed they would have added the factory information to the finished product. Whatever testing they were doing ended or failed and then whatever was left could have been sold under the table. Interesting that Mono is not in quotes; I recall Ted Z's insight into the use of same on Coupon and another brand or two while trademark was being secured. What a difference 100 years makes in the business world. Two clicks and you have a wealth of information about any recent company in the world these days!
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06-24-2010, 03:35 PM
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Excellent article Jon!! Thank you for sharing this with us,I have learned alot from it.
Sincerely,Clayton
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Very nice article and great replies, too. I am interested in the actresses in this set. I have my doubts that there are 175 actress cards since these are seldom seen. It might be that there are really 25 baseball players and 25 actresses and the 200 number might not be valid at all, like T205 with 400 subjects listed. The actresses are unidentified on the cards, too, making it even more difficult to pin down a number on them. I'm going to start a picture checklist of these on my Moviecard.com website. I have 6 to start with. If anyone has any more scans, send them over and I'll post them so maybe we can see what is out there for the actresses. I'm not even sure these are really actresses since they are unidentified.
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