It's obviously an after the fact designation but that doesn't, to me, make it arbitrary, I assume Burdick's intent was to group all cards from ATC brands that had fronts that looked alike?

Burdick did a great job, and later Lipset and Lemke. Pat is pointing to evidence that I don't think was known to Burdick. Perhaps, it was. By arbitrary, I mean casually, he left off T215-1 and T213-1, and sorted them with the blue-captioned ones.

On the Journals, did I read correctly that the T36 Auto Drivers set was only distributed in packs for a single day? There are far more examples to be found of T36 than T213-1.

Peter, I don't know what Burdick's intentions were but personally I don't think they were printed with the t206's.

Yes I understand and I would not presume to say you are wrong given what I've seen of your research and analytical abilities, just trying to ask some questions to perhaps help clarify things perhaps not.

What is a T206? Take away the nomenclature. Can you describe why a Ty Cobb with a Ty Cobb back, a Keeler port Sovereign 150, and a Keeler port Piedmont 350 are part of a set?

I asked earlier if you thought Coupon 1 was a type of Broder. I'm totally fine with that. I'm reading that's what you are saying. It could have been a one-off test print on cheaper paper without a release date at all, could it not?

I would only be guessing but probably the same reason as me that he had reason to believe they weren't printed with the other t206's.

For me it's easy with the Keeler portrait examples as they were grouped
together when they started printing the set.
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The Cobb I personally don't consider part of the set for several reasons one
of them being we don't have proof of when they were printed.

I'm not familiar with the term Broder but as I said I think the Coupons
copied the t206's and were printed after the t206 printings ended.

Thanks for clarifying. Broder is a slang term in post-war collecting. A father and son made homemade MLB sets from the 70's-90's that have become somewhat collectible on their own now.

I don't believe this is correct (or fully correct). There are some oddities in the ledger book, and some pages that indicate multiple print runs/issue runs for the same set. For example, T53 is stated in one of the Posey letters in it to have starting packing and delivery on March 29, 1911. The very next letter in the book says this single-series single-brand issue started packing and delivery on May 23, 1911.

T218's 3rd series is stated to have been issued in February, 1911 on one page in the ledger itself, and one of the Posey letters states May 25th.

Many of the pages are also missing, they are numbered to at least 380. Including the Posey letters not counted in the page count, there are 65 pages still together plus the remnants of the T206 pages someone ripped out of the collection to sell at some point, removing a lot of context.

I suspect T36 is one of the issues that had multiple issue (and print?) runs, and so was not issued for only March 27 and 28, 1911.

Thanks for the update. I agree that there are too many T36 Auto Drivers cards around today for them to have had a severely limited print run. I glanced through some of the content on the Journals that I think was on the non-sports board awhile back, and remember the T36 part.

I was kind of hoping to wind-down the T206/T213 discussion for now, at least from my side. The reason I have been able to collect-up so many Coupons is that T213 cards have always been viewed as some sort of inferior knock-off to T206, less-so today than in the past.

I won't bump it anymore after this then ;). I'm presently agnostic on if they are t206 (Catalog designations should follow what ATC/ALC appears to have considered a set, which in this case has little evidence one way or the other) and don't own any anymore, but I am quite amazed anyone has managed to put together so many of this cool issue. Congratulations on your set Rob, and good luck on Rhoades!

Thanks, it's been a fun project. I'm sure a Rhoades will turn up eventually. There are folks in Louisiana that have T213's sitting around, and load them up on eBay all the time. Good thing I have lots of other sets to work on.

Hi Rob, I know G1911 replied about the T36's but I wanted to add some more information.

There are two pages on the T36's in the journal one for Mecca and one for Hassan. The dates are when they first started packing and shipping.
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on some of the pages they went back and noted when that particular insert
was discontinued but many of them they didn't. Also some of them say to
pack and ship for 30 or 60 days but not all of them.

If you look at the Hassan page for the auto drivers you can see it says
discontinued packing Lighthouse pictures and substituted auto drivers.

Here's an earlier Hassan page that has the Lighthouses
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They started packing on 1-26-11 and shipping on 1-28-11 this indicates they were
distributed around 60 days so the auto drivers were probably distributed for either 30 or 60 days.