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Posted By: William Heitman

I still have my original hardbound ACC. In the ACC, N cards were "Central and South American Tobacco Cards." I see a difference between a Catalog and a book of checklists. I always thought the purpose of the ACC was to provide a shorthand way to talk to others about cards. When it came out, most dealings in the hobby were done through the mail. Without the ACC, those letters would have been awfully long. The section that we incorrectly call N1 etc. was the section on "19th Century U.S. Tobacco Insert Cards" and, yes, it was grouped almost entirely by manufacturers, which was a logical way to look at them.