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1910 T218 Mecca "Champions"
A tobacco series of champion athletes and prize fighters, with boxers making up a large share of the checklist alongside other sports. Mecca and Hassan backs are the common ones; Tolstoi backs are rare. In this collection it represents Abe Attell as he was known in 1910: a reigning featherweight champion, not yet the gambler of 1919.