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Originally Posted by T206Collector
This is truly great. It’s really not much different from collecting strip cards, just that the panels are still found most often together. Do you need 8 Mathewsons for completion? Or are the backs identical? Or are you not collecting back text/color/cigarette variations?
Great thread!
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Thanks, I have never thought of them in strip card terms, but in many ways that is what they are.
For a complete master set you would need 2 Mathewson cards, one with black print on back, and one with red print on back. This would apply for all 144 subjects available (mostly different players, but there are six players that have two different poses, for example Eddie Collins with mouth closed and mouth open, and one player, Devlin, that has a team change on front). 288 cards would make the master set, since there is only one cigarette brand, Mecca, and no factory designations (these are on the center panels of a complete T202 cards). I remember one board member was going after (and nearing) a complete center panel set, but a master set of them would need three of each center panel card: Black Factory 649, Black Factory 30, and Red Factory 30.
Brian