Geographical reach of T206

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Posted By: Paul Carek

A question for you T206 scholars: how far west were the ATC brands associated with T206 distributed?

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Posted By: Matt

thanks - now back to the regularly scheduled thread.

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Posted By: Paul Carek

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Posted By: Damian Anderson

I live in Wichita, Ks and have pretty much been a MidWest boy all my life. Answers anyone?

Damian

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Posted By: Jantz

As far as distribution, no clue. Production might be the ATC plant that was located in Middletown, Ohio. Probably no shocking info here, but just thought I would toss that out there.

Collect what you like,
Jantz

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Posted By: T206Collector

...the geography a bit by looking at the teams on the cards. The fact that the most west Major League teams at that time were St. Louis and Chicago, the Mississippi is a pretty good dividing line for distribution. Add to that the fact that the Southern League cards stretched from the Southeast all the way to Texas, and you can be pretty sure the cards made it to Texas and the surrounding areas. Also, there were Canadian teams featured on T206, so the cards certainly made it pretty far north, if not into Canada then the teams (like Rochester and Buffalo) that likely played the Canadian teams.

Further, given Obak's PCL prominence, and no California League teams featured in T206 minor league issues, I think it is evident that if Piedmont and Sweet Caporal were being distributed there, it was in much lesser quantities than on the east coast. Given Hindu's prominent advertisements in Louisiana newspapers, Hindu was probably sold pretty regularly in that region. Also, I think it has been proposed that Piedmont was a Northeast favorite and Sweet Cap was a south east favorite (or vice versa).

So, I would say T206 was pretty well distributed North to South when we're talking east of the Mississippi, but if we go west of the Mississippi, then I think Texas would be about it.

Those are my theories and I'm sticking to them.

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Posted By: Mark Macrae

I have purchased groups of T-206 which were originally collected in Northern California. Most I've found are primarily with Old Mill backs. As I recall Leon's Trucker Boy find had a few with Sweet Caporal back. Old Mill later on had ties with Liggett & Myers, as did San Francisco -based John Bollman Company, which distributed Obak cigarettes (among others) . The Old Mills that I've found here turn up in lesser quantities than the more popular (locally) Obaks.I'd suspect that many regions of the country were selected for baseball card distribution, but it is probably safe to say that not every region received the baseball inserts.