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Frank WakefieldTy Cobb's father died in 1905. He could not have finagled the printing of Ty Cobb cards after he died.
Seems to me that the Ty Cobb backed Ty Cobb cards were some sort of vanity or private printing. If thousands of these cards had been made for distribution in thousands of tins of Ty Cobb tobacco, I'd think that more of them would have survived. I suspect that the ones that survive were among ones made as a sample, either at private request or in contemplation of being distributed with the tobacco. Maybe the gloss on the front was to protect the image. And maybe this all occurred just as T206 production was about to stop. So the cards never made it into general production. And they weren't part of the T206 issue... That's what I think. Also, if I had one I'd sorely want it to be in T206 so I'd have a rare back. But it isn't.