Early in 1911, American Lithographic (ALC) started producing their new gold-bordered series of cards with their very colorful and ornate Military Men (T80) cards
being one of their first. Shown here are the Tobacco brands
** associated with these cards. Simultaneously, ALC was printing LENOX and UZIT T206's.
Gleaned from an ALC ledger record (dated Feb 1911) is information indicating that ALC was notifying Factory #30 (NYC) that they should insert a T80 card with
a T206 card in LENOX cigarette packs at the Factory......so, each cigarette pack contained a T80 and a T206.
Spring of 1911, T206 production had come to an end. I'm pretty sure that this timeline explains why T206 cards with LENOX and UZIT backs were short-printed.
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** Note....The T80 cards were also printed with OLD MILL backs. These OLD MILL T80 cards are extremely rare.
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