[tedzan]

Sorry to disagree with you; but, a simple division of 300 Meg/5 K is very misleading.
First of all, 1/2 the population are women and 99.99% of them don't collect BB cards.
Then of the male population another significant portion of it doesn't fall into the age
brackets that would most likely collect vintage BB cards. When you boil it all down,
a fair estimate is that approx. 2000-4000 T206 collectors are out there. Some who
have (or strive to) complete this set and others who collect HOFer's or their favorite
players.

Yes, there are some collectors who have multiples of the Red Cobb, I have complete
sets of Piedmont, Sovereign, and Sweet Cap (Factory 30) which include 4 red Cobb's
between them. But then, I'm a very rare exception to the norm.

I think Scot Reader's 6000 estimate is very close to the actual red Cobb population.
And, his numbers on the other 3 - T206 Cobb's are very representative of what we
have repeatedly seen in T206 surveys.


TED Z