Hey Scott,
That card is amazing! Just incredible.
Ok everybody: Let's touch on this once again.
We call E94 "E94 George Close Candy" because cards have been found with the Close Candy overprints. We disregard the Blomes overprints and don't call the issue "E94 Blomes Chocalate" but that's besides the point. We do use the overprint to dictate the name of the issue because that's the only evidence we have.
With E98, we have the Old Put stamps present on some cards but choose not to call them T cards which is fine and not a big deal anyhow. As Scott mentions above we've seen orange candy stains on the cards many times. I don't think I've ever seen an Old Put with stains, but who knows.
The fact that E98 look like other candy cards could be similar to issues like T216 or T208 that also look like candy issues.
Just for the sake of argument...
Rob
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