Large bordered American Beauty

[FrankWakefield]

Martin, that's a great card! Thanks for posting. Frank, if you have no room for those 2 Lake cards as you move, I'm happy to keep an eye on 'em here in Kentucky.

[mrvster]

Martin,

Sweet card..... it appears "hand cut" on both borders.....could have been hand cut from a test strip or sheet althougth the bottom edges almost look "factory cut"...


i wish i could examine it...
this is odd, because there are no definite clues(missing color/severe registration, etc,ect) to indicate any sign of scrap except those wavy side borders...i have never found a wide bordered am. beauty before......i'm sure Ted will eleborate since he has been all over am. beauties in the past...

TED , WHERE ARE YOU

BTW
can't thank you enough for the matty scrap Martin!!! YOU ROCK!!

[OldSchoolBaseball]

Here is one of my AB's (non framed back) - I would call this a wide bordered AB as my other one (with framed back) is much narrower. Really looks "normal" like other T206's

[E93]

Martin,
That is a great card. It looks to me to have been hand cut on the sides. My guess is it never saw the inside of a cigarette pack.
JimB

[pete zouras]

[Mikehealer]

Nice Iron Man collection Pete.

[canjond]

As for the American Beauty pack "myth", I've owned (and still own) American Beauty cigarette boxes from a few different years, including 1905, 1909 and 1910. I can unequivocally say that all of the boxes I have ever owned were not any narrower than the other brands unsed to distribute T206 cards (i.e., Sweet Caporal, Piedmont, Old Mill, Sovereign, etc).