What is the first T206 you ever purchased? [Archive]

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03-18-2007, 07:36 PM

Posted By: Rob DewolfLate 1970s, Nazir Grotto monthly show in Canton, Ohio: Ty Cobb red portrait. I think the price was $40 or so. Of course, being a clueless, high school know-it-all, I sold it a few months later for a $10 profit.

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03-18-2007, 07:47 PM

Posted By: Trae R.If I wouldn't have dug up my first post on this forum I wouldn't honestly know but I would have said 4 or 5 years ago... which is off. I purchased my first T206 in November of 2004 - not even 3 years ago... which blows my mind. I feel like I've been collecting them much longer but that's the power of the T206 set! I actually sold this one and found again two years later on eBay, so I bought it back - at a pretty unreasonable price too. At any rate, I have it back. It is/was my first pre-war card altogether. The scan could be better... Here he is: <img src="http://www.mlbvintage.com/misc/bender_portrait_psa1.jpg">

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03-18-2007, 08:04 PM

Posted By: steveBought years ago in an old CSA grading company slab. Submitted to PSA for crossover when no club membership was required. Very pleased it came back in this PSA 5 case.<img src="http://www.network54.com/Realm/tmp/1174183464.JPG">

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03-18-2007, 08:06 PM

Posted By: Ted ZanidakisJEFF Too long ago to remember the very 1st T206....but, this Carl Lungren (Cubs) with the El Principe de Gales back stands out as my 1st valuable T206. It didn't cost me much 25 years ago; but. if I was to put it up for sale now....I'd gain a tenfold profit. But gosh....I just can't do that....just like I can't part with my 1949 Bowman's and Leaf's I collected as a kid. TED Z <img src="http://www.freephotoserver.com/v001/tedzan/aclundgren.jpg">

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03-18-2007, 08:41 PM

Posted By: George DreherMoose McCormick more than 40 years ago. It was in EX condition and I paid one dollar for it at a garage sale.

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03-18-2007, 09:59 PM

Posted By: peter chaoI remember my first purchase because it was at a Coin and Baseball Card Convention. When I entered the convention hall I discovered that there were all coin dealers except for one baseball card dealer. I had brought some cards to trade and at first I thought it was hopeless because there was only one dealer. But I got lucky. The guy had a T206 Walter Johnson Portrait very dignified looking. I traded him about a dozen cards and $80 bucks for the card. One of the cards I traded was the '85 Topps Mark McGwire rookie. Back then the card was actually worth something. Quite a deal, made the trip worthwhile. I'm not sure if the dealer felt it was worthwhile because, I didn't see anybody else buying baseball cards. Peter

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03-18-2007, 10:15 PM

Posted By: MVSNYCabout 15 years ago, i was at one of those "mall card shows", and i saw a few lower-grade T206 cards...Elberfeld NY, Devlin, Kroh...i bought all of them for a total $20...i still have them framed on my dresser.

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03-18-2007, 10:19 PM

Posted By: Mark LMore than 35 years ago I bought 5 or 10 via an ad in the back of the Sporting News (I think). I don't remember all of them but I'm pretty sure that one was a Mathewson portrait. And I know that none of the cards cost more than $2.

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03-18-2007, 10:32 PM

Posted By: Dave HornishKillian pitching, bought (I think ) in 1983. It still has, to this day, flecks of tobacco on it. I think I paid $11 but it might have been less. It's VG-EX and that seems high for back then. I didn't buy another for 10 years then I bought a Polar Bear Back at a show, then nothing until 2007. Collecting Superbas but contemplating attempting the (almost) full Monster.

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03-18-2007, 10:52 PM

Posted By: DaveWIt may seem odd that my first purchase was a card I already had though it was badly creased. I should also mention that this was the first card I ever bought as a collector. The creased card: <img src="http://www.network54.com/Realm/tmp/1174193501.JPG"> The purchase: <img src="http://www.network54.com/Realm/tmp/1174193544.JPG"> Edited to add Purchased in Feb 2004 for $40.

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03-19-2007, 01:01 AM

Posted By: AndyI had to have it, I grew up in Jersey. <img src="http://www.geocities.com/typecard8008/t206Hannifan-JerseyCity.jpg"> btw, has anyone ever seen on of these with a clear image or do all Hannifan's have this blurred image? Thanks, Andy

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03-19-2007, 01:09 AM

Posted By: barry arnoldThe first i ever bought(not the first i ever owned since i was given 10 or so in '82) was a Matty dark cap for 19 bucks which i bought around '84. Still have it. best, barry

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03-19-2007, 01:33 AM

Posted By: CNHappy Smith Brooklyn about 28 years ago from Larry Gladstone at Hofstra.CN

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03-19-2007, 05:39 AM

Posted By: Marc S.with an Uzit back. Part of a split with some other Net 54's about 7/8 years ago from one of the Mastro groupings of rare backs.

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03-19-2007, 05:49 AM

Posted By: DylanUnfortunatly when i bought my first pre-war card i wasnt collecting prewar and it was really an impulse buy. It was either a T206 or T205 SGC graded around VG and i sold them on ebay sometime later when i needed some cash, wish i didnt, but what can you do!?

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03-19-2007, 06:07 AM

Posted By: barrysloateI bought my first T206 around 1983 and it was Groom, Washington. Never forget it!

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03-19-2007, 06:28 AM

Posted By: JerryRucker Portrait, about 1989. I was collecting 50's & 60's at the time but since my last name is Rucker, I had to have it.

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03-19-2007, 06:33 AM

Posted By: Steve M.I have no clue who was first nor do I even have any recollection of the circumstances. I do rememeber how I really got into T206 when this old time collector in Virginia sent me his T206 album containing over 700 cards and asked me what I had for trade. Ended up trading him my 53 Bowman color set. Those were the good old days before slabbing, before the internet, when we were in it for the fun of collecting. Hopefully most of us still are. My first significant "purchase" was when I bought all four Cobbs from Lew. $2,672 which at the time was a lot of money. Eventually had them graded with the Green, Red and Bat off all grding as PSA 5's. The Bat On got a 2 which was the nicest 2 you'll ever see. Just ask the Board member who purchased it last year. <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14>

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03-19-2007, 06:46 AM

Posted By: Martin NealI think it was in 1988 that I purchased my first t206. Actually it was a group of about 130 of which all in the condition as the ones I have scanned. There were lots of Hall of Famers many of which I still have. I have sold the only Cobb (bat on) from this bunch. I paid $100.00 for the lot which works out to about 75 cents per card. The seller, like me, had no idea what they were,(he had found them in an attic of a farmhouse they were renovating). Anyway, the odd thing about this find is that there were a lot of color variations and (no Bs) in the lot. These cards actually stayed in my garage until 2001 when I discovered ebay and vintage baseball cards. I've got to say it's been a lot of fun collecting T206s and T205s. <img src="http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e268/123MARTINS/firstbuy.jpg"> <img src="http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e268/123MARTINS/hannifan.jpg"> Andy, I don't if this one is more focused or not.

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03-19-2007, 07:06 AM

Posted By: Bruce MacPhersonMine was this cobb I purchased in the late 1970's for $10. <img src="http://www.network54.com/Realm/tmp/1174223166.JPG">

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03-19-2007, 08:34 AM

Posted By: Jeff LichtmanBruce -- wow.

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03-19-2007, 08:59 AM

Posted By: Brian E.my first purchase was back in 2002, a Red Cobb with EPDG back for $350 or so. I sent it into SGC and it came back as a 40. I was happy and still am! Brian E.

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03-19-2007, 09:02 AM

Posted By: LeeI bought 2 t206's as my first t206's back in 1994, Schmidt Portrait and Wiltse Throwing. The Schmidt is EX and the Wiltse is vg-ex, both still in my possession and ungraded. I paid $10 each for them at a local civic center card show.

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03-19-2007, 09:03 AM

Posted By: Richard L.When I did collect baseball, Bill Campbell of Cinn. was my first back in the the late 70's. Thought he resembled Bill Campbell, pitcher for the Red Sox at the time. The card was a nice EX and cost me 2.00, all that I had in my pocket at the time.

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03-19-2007, 09:11 AM

Posted By: Judge Dred (Fred)It was either an Egan or Hoblitzell.... I can't remember which one for sure...

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03-19-2007, 09:18 AM

Posted By: GeorgeIn 1961 I joined the Army, and I was in basic training at Fort Dix, in New Jersey. One weekend, I got a pass and went to Philadelphia. By some chance, I wandered into an antique store and asked if they had anything related to baseball. He pulled out a box that must have had 1000 T206's in it, although at that time I did not know what they were. The price was $1 each. That seemed like an outrageous price, because my Topps and Bowman cards had cost me only 1/100th of that, and they were bigger! I had only $35 with me, which was half of a month's pay at that time. But I pored through the cards, and found the 35 best........all Hall of Famers, and all in excellent condition, and I bought them. I had no idea that card collecting was a "hobby," or that these cards would eventually become valuable, but I knew what I liked. The players, as I recall, included Mathewson, Tinker, Evers, Chance, Cobb, Young, Brown, Collins.......but no Wagner or Plank, unfortunately. I mounted the cards in a large frame, which hung in my office for years. Around 1981, the first Beckett catalog was published. I bought a copy, and discovered that there were other collectors in the world, and my T206 collection took off from there.

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03-19-2007, 09:22 AM

Posted By: GlennChance portrait with yellow background

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03-19-2007, 09:56 AM

Posted By: Jeff LichtmanGeorge, do you still have those cards in the frame?

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03-19-2007, 10:01 AM

Posted By: Brian WeisnerCobb..... 15-20 bucks <img src="http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q257/hogan6g/Scan0008-1.jpg">

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03-19-2007, 10:11 AM

Posted By: Jason CarotaFive months ago, this card changed everything (in a good way <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14> ): <img src="http://i139.photobucket.com/albums/q319/jay1065/T206/bates.jpg">

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03-19-2007, 10:15 AM

Posted By: RayBought this "beauty" about a year and a half ago. While I don't really collect T206's (yet), I still have it and always will. <img src="http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b63/gotsparks09/Personal%20Collection%20-%20Vintage/T206Schlei.jpg">

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03-19-2007, 10:22 AM

Posted By: GeorgeJeff, I eventually took them out of the frame and put them into an album, along with other T206's that I acquired subsequently. I still have all of them. I still have the frame, too. George

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03-19-2007, 10:24 AM

Posted By: joe brennan About 5 years ago I wanted just one vintage card in my collection. I knew nothing about vintage and very little about grading companies. I bought this before I knew better, but it did start my collection. <img src="http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m80/2dueces/T206%20COLLECTION/flanagan.jpg"> In Rememberance of James W. Brennan Sr. 1924-1982. Dad, thanks for everything you did for me.

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03-19-2007, 10:26 AM

Posted By: AndyYour Hannifan certainly has better image registration than mine, but it still has the bluriness that I always see on this card. I do appreciate the response with image. What grade did yours get?

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03-19-2007, 10:27 AM

Posted By: dennisgavy cravath,he looked like a cartoon character. <img src="http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l239/dcc1/gavy.jpg">

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03-19-2007, 10:31 AM

Posted By: T206CollectorPurchased in 1997 from a guy whose grandfather left a collection for him. The guy needed $500 for a trip to Vegas. I was more than happy to oblige. <a href="http://photobucket.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c322/T206Collector/T206%20Collection/BenderPortraitSGC50.jpg" border="0" alt="Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket"></a> <a href="http://photobucket.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c322/T206Collector/T206%20Collection/MathewsonThrowingWhiteCapSGC60.jpg" border="0" alt="Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket"></a>

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03-19-2007, 10:45 AM

Posted By: Brian Weisner Hi Andy, Hannifan has so many different dark colors around the face, that it's difficult to find a really clear picture of his face. Here is my best: <img src="http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q257/hogan6g/Scan0012-1.jpg">

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03-19-2007, 11:38 AM

Posted By: Dave WilliamsCirca 1977 when I was about 14, during Jimmy Carter's presidency, we were in Georgia, en route to Florida on vacation when we stopped at a "Bargain Barn/Flea Market" kind of place. I asked for Baseball cards. He brought out a cigar box full of T 206 (which I didn't know what they were at the time). I liked history, recognized McGinnity as the "Iron Man" and for $2 it was mine. I also bought Casey of Montreal. They were all minor leaguers. He also had shoe boxes full of Topps, going back into the 60's. I bought the 1968 Cardinal team for $1. 2 years later we went back on vacation, I saved money and had a lot to spend, and when we got there the old guy had died a month or so before, and his son said he had just sold off all the baseball cards. Timing is everything. One of you guys probably got them all.

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03-19-2007, 11:45 AM

Posted By: Steve DawsonBack in 1979, I bought a Bresnahan (Batting), Keeler (Batting) and M. Brown (Pitching, Chicago) for $10.00 total. All were VG-EX. Steve

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03-19-2007, 11:51 AM

Posted By: davidcyclebackI can't remember the first one I bought, but the first one I owned was a Harry Pattee I received as a a Christmas present. I later got a Pattee signed index card and framed the two together. The first Pre-War card I bought was a 1933 Goudey Jack Quinn from the Larry Frisch catalog when I was a kid.

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03-19-2007, 12:38 PM

Posted By: Judson HamlinA Joss (port), Lajoie (port) and Waddell (pitch)- all vg or so that i traded for a Winfield rookie and maybe a couple of dollars in 1983 or so.

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03-19-2007, 12:47 PM

Posted By: peter chaoJud, You walked off with quite a haul. The dealer probably regretted that trade. Peter

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03-19-2007, 01:12 PM

Posted By: Judson HamlinI was 15 or so and actually reluctant- I think the book on a Winfield rookie was fairly high at the time. The guy was selling cards out of his house- odd set up, but what did I know

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03-19-2007, 01:49 PM

Posted By: ShawnBill Carrigan. I bought the card around 1980 from the "back room" of a used record shop. Tobacco cards were very hard to come by when I was growing up in Colorado.

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03-19-2007, 06:30 PM

Posted By: darylewere purcahsed from Larry Fritsch back in 1985. Lot of 5 different w/ 1 Hall of Famer.....included----Bresnahan (port), Ganzel, Delehanty, Scott and Howard. Still have 4 of the 5 (sold the Delehanty when I got a better condition copy)....these were in like F/G-Good..........$17:-)

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03-19-2007, 06:47 PM

Posted By: Frank WakefieldI got 3 at once... Heinie Batch, Sunny Jim Dygert, and Joe Tinker with his hands on his knees. Nice shape, $10, $12, and $35 each... still have them. And I kinda wish I'd bought only one to start with, so I'd be certain which one was first.

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03-19-2007, 08:46 PM

Posted By: dericmy first was a fair con. Ford. i was in gatlenburg tn 4 years ago on our honeymoon, pretty cheap, but there was a card show in one of the malls and i saw the ford never seeing any card that old, bought it for $10 after getting some history of the t206's. came back did more research and been hooked, actually the only cards i collect. i've bought, traded and sold a bunch that the ford is the only one out of the first 20 or so that i still have, the only one that will never get rid of.

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03-19-2007, 10:48 PM

Posted By: AndyBrian, Your's is certainly the most crisp Hannifan I've seen so far. Thank you very much for posting it. Now, I have a new question for you. Where did you find all that extra border to add to the top of the card! Geez Louise. I could almost paint you an image of an old ballgame on there. <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14> Thanks, Andy

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03-20-2007, 06:32 AM

Posted By: Brian Weisner Hi Andy, The Hannifan came in a "find" of a few hundred T206's sold on EBAY last year. I purchase 5-6 lots of 20+ cards that included 20-30 cards that had Super Larger Borders. I have posted pictures of them in the past, and will be happy to do so again on a different thread, Be well Brian

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03-20-2007, 06:56 AM

Posted By: Martin NealHi Andy, The Hanifan scanned earlier is graded a 5. I had a Psa 6, but a set registry guy offered me crazy money and the Psa 5 Hanifan in trade. A bonus was the Psa 5 I got in return was a Sovereign back. The Hanifan scanned here is ungraded, got it a 67 card lot in January. I think the registry is better than the graded one. <img src="http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e268/123MARTINS/hannifan2.jpg">

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03-20-2007, 07:46 AM

Posted By: peter ullmanThis white cap matty was my first...$2 at a national when I was a young buck!!! This criger was purchased at a similar time...but was $5. pete ullman <img src="http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i176/ullmandds/mattywhitecapfirst.jpg">

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03-20-2007, 11:45 AM

Posted By: jeffdrumNap Lajoie Throwing - 6.5.93

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03-20-2007, 11:53 AM

Posted By: Sean BHI purchased my first T206 from Steve Yawitz for $10.50 (RAW) on August 16, 2004, looking for old Minneapolis stuff on eBay. <img src="http://www.network54.com/Realm/tmp/1174326747.JPG"> Sean BH

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03-20-2007, 12:27 PM

Posted By: boxingcardmanAt a 1978 show in Anaheim. Set me back twelve bucks. I still have it, but several years ago it was entombed in a PSA 2 holder.

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03-20-2007, 12:29 PM

Posted By: Rich KleinA Joe McGinnity for $1 (or so) from the old beloved Sports Corner store at the Bergen Mall Rich No, I don't have this card anymore

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03-21-2007, 03:29 AM

Posted By: DylanI posted earlier that i couldnt figure out which T206 i first bought, it was before i was into vintage cards. Well i was going through some images on CD's and there it was, along with the other two first prewar cards i bought, a Stone and a Lennox T205. Jesse Tannehill <a href="http://img245.imageshack.us/my.php?image=35656706vv4.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://img245.imageshack.us/img245/1261/35656706vv4.th.jpg" border="0" alt="Free Image Hosting at www.ImageShack.us" /></a> BTW... I recently opened an account with imageshack and when i upload an image and then copy and paste the link to the forum i cant get the image to appear any bigger then a thumbnail, does anyone know how get the image to appear bigger?