Further Thoughts about Red Cobb with Cobb back

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Posted By: Judson Hamlin

This is what happens while some of us work? Good thing my office blocks forums like this or I would get nothing done...
It seems likely that this card was printed by Amer. Litho, just like other E and T sets with the same style (E95/96 and T213/14/15 come to mind; and probably T210/11 as well). The similarity with T206 seems to end there, however. That is to say, it has no better claim to be included in that set than a T215-1 or a T213-1. There is no ATC paperwork that has survived, as with Uzit and other backs; there are no period newspaper ads, as with Hindu; and there are no other subjects- baseball or otherwise- with Ty Cobb advertising that have surfaced. In short, we have no evidence to show that this card was an element of ATC's distribution scheme of baseball insert cards in the 1909-11 time frame. A better case can be made that Coupon and Red Cross should be included in T206 since we can accurately date the first series of those issues to ATC and the 1909-11 time frame. The Cobb/Cobb is, and always be a valuable card but, despite the post- distribution opinion of Burdick, does not appear to be temporally related to the T206 set.