T206 production/printing questions/comments

[tedzan]

Regarding Leon's famous multi-overprint scrap, Old Mill and Piedmont are VA Factory # 25....while EPDG is VA Factory # 17......major difference.

This might seem trivial, but trust me it isn't, as the Federal Tobacco Laws back then regulated these various factory's. So, if one was to think that
backs were printed at the various factories, Leon's card certainly discredits that idea.

Further evidence of American Litho. (ALC) printing the majority of T-cards (BB and Non-Sports) during the 1909-1919 era, is the ALC letter (dated
March 1911) that instructs that one BB (T206) and one T80 (Militarymen) be inserted in LENOX, TOLSTOI and UZIT cigarette packs.




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Finally, there are 2 overwhelming factors that support my contention that all the American Tobacco Co. (ATC) brand premiums were printed at ALC.

(1) James B. Duke of ATC and Joseph Knapp, founder of ALC, were very close friends and business partners.

(2) ALC was the foremost lithographic company in America in the late 19th and early 20th Century.


TED Z