T206, or not....let's have a continuing conversation....Ty Cobb Smoking Tobacco card

[tedzan]

Originally Posted by Exhibitman

Problem with that, Ted, is that the PC may post-date the ATC's acquisition of the plant.

The more intriguing question is the one raised by the other posts that show the Ty Cobb brand was Penn, not ATC: how did Penn get access to this ATC lithograph of Cobb? Did they cut a deal with the printer? If there was a hidden ATC ownership, did the ATC lend the art to Penn as a silent partner?

Adam

My P/C of the Reidsville Plant (Factory #33) has no date on the back of it. However, the fact that the picture of this Plant doesn't have the LUCKY STRIKE logo
indicates that this PC was available prior to 1915.

James Buchanan Duke (ATC founder) bought the F. R. Penn Co. in 1911. Duke made Penn a Manager in one of ATC's divisions.

Duke and Joseph P. Knapp (American Lithographic Co. founder) were close business partners, which suggests to me that more than likely is why the Red Cobb
was printed (1910) as a promotional piece for the Ty Cobb Smoking Tobacco brand.


TED Z

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