[ty_cobb]

Its 2017. The 'measure' of what the population of t206s in part seems to be gleaned from grading data. the average bear sends in 10-20 cards. You have to remember older collectors could buy or access lots of 100+ cards in one sale. The sample size of what someone could see in a year was 10 -50 times what it is now. relying in psa or sgc data is a relatively small sample size to whats out there.

When the grading guys started they didnt have any knowledge of what fronts could be on what backs anyways. Advanced collectors kept their own lists. In a sense collectors didnt give a damn about the knowledge of that anyways, its was only valuable if you could acquire the physical 1 of 1 card before someone else. I always found that to be a real shame... many collectors put in a life time to collecting these cards and catalog them ,, but strangely the research itself is discounted. But why? The grading card company doesnt have a scan of what he graded either! How silly. Does that mean in the future what the pop reports are will trump the research of veteran collectors , when the grading companies have no scans or records themselves,,,lol