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10-04-2002, 11:22 AM

Posted By: runscottOkay, here's an obscure list to debate. I've been trying to complete a t206 HOF portrait collection in vg to vgex condition for about a year, with appearance the priority - color, registration, no creases that break the paper. I've learned a lot during the process, such as: most of the green-background cards I found had poor color, but when there was lots of green ink they looked great. Others, like Beckley and Willis were very easy to find, but looked horrible unless they had good registration. Others look so good when printed correctly, that you just can't settle for one with poor color or registration - Evers, Clarke and Huggins are examples of this. Some, like Griffith, Bresnahan and Walsh, still look good when color or registration are slightly off. Chance orange and E.Collins seem to look bad no matter how they are printed. Based on the preceeding qualifiers, here's my difficulty list, toughest first. In some cases I might have gotten lucky and found a difficult card early and stopped looking - Cy Young was one of my first - but most have been upgraded at least once, some such as Matty, many times. I found the top 4 on the list to be especially difficult, and still don't have a red Chance. 1.Frank Chance (red)- tough to find 2.Tinker - tough, backgr. varies between red/orange 3.Jennings - extremely tough to find with color,reg. 4.McGraw - lots of "low ink" cards, reg. can be off 5.Chesbro - reg. can be off, tuff to find in nice cond. 6.Lajoie - reg. problems are common 7.Evers - background ink, reg. problems 8.Joss - moderately hard to find w/good color,reg. 9.Collins,E - reg. is tough (ugly to begin with) 10.Beckley - reg. is tough, but card is common 11.Clarke - color and reg. is tough 12.Willis - color and reg. is tough, but an easy card 13.Collins,J - reg. is tough 14.Brown - when found, color and reg. are normally good 15.Huggins - reg. can be off 16.Cobb (green)- background color problems, trimming 17.Waddell - reg. can be off, beautiful when perfect 18.Young - probs w/low background ink 19.Keeler - almost always looks nice 20.Bender - reg. can be off 21.Marquard 22.Johnson - reg. can be off, but it's fuzzy anyway 23.Wallace - easy 24.Mathewson - reg. and color normally good 25.Cobb (red)- reg. problems 26.Walsh - reg. and background color can be off 27.Chance (orange)- reg. poor to begin with, easy card 28.Griffith - easy 29.Bresnahan - easy

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10-04-2002, 01:08 PM

Posted By: jeff sIt's been a while since I did t206s, but I remember the Chance portrait red being the easiest of them all, with the possible exceptions of the last two on the list. I think I had three of those before I got a duplicate of any other HOFers. Granted, I wasn't looking for top grade, but as I remember, all of my cards were in low grade only because of normal wear and tear: creases, corners, etc.

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10-04-2002, 02:49 PM

Posted By: John(z28jd)Great list Scott,im gonna check mine with your list and get back to you with comparisons

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10-04-2002, 04:55 PM

Posted By: ty_cobbOn your list I have multiples of the Cobb red, and a lower cond. Cobb green. I have an SGC40 red Chance, bold red, good registration. I'm working on T206 Hof'ers, but prefer to have them on a rare back if I can.

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10-04-2002, 08:32 PM

Posted By: runscottThe list was just meant to show how difficult it was for me to find cards that met my collecting criteria - I'm guessing it isn't a good reflection of scarcity. For instance, if one or two people were to sell green portrait Cobbs for a pretty penny on ebay, I'm sure they would come out of the woodwork. Inversely, several Tinker portraits have shown up on ebay lately and haven't drawn much attention, so I expect them to dry up again - a weak brown Hindu went for $62 today, but I still think it was a bargain. I am gradually replacing my non-graded ones with SGC-graded cards. I sold an SGC30 green Cobb that had great visual appeal - now I'm kicking myself!