T206s with character

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Posted By: Rob NYC

I've seen some really exceptional T206 specimens on here. And since it seems to be the subject of the week, I would like to see the other end of this spectrum - T206s with character AKA damage. It may be the worst looking T206 ever, but it is also loved the most. I would like to see those. I know someone out there had a die-cut T206.....

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Posted By: jay behrens

Here it is, the famous die cut Johnson portrait along with my cancelled Willis


Jay

Growing old is not optional, growing up is.

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Posted By: Rob NYC

Ah, there it is!
And what do you mean by 'cancelled'?

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Posted By: jay behrens

GC Millers and other redemption cards were cancelled by either hole punching them, cutting a corner off or cutting off some other portion of the card.

Jay

Growing old is not optional, growing up is.

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Posted By: Joe D.

definitely my favorite....

can't get much more "character" on a T206... but Iron Man can handle it.


P.S. - the back looks worse!

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Posted By: Steve M.

that McGinnity looks a lot like my T200's

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Posted By: martin dalziel

I guess someone really needed the Demmitt to complete the set. Bill Dinneen never looked so good.

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Posted By: T206Collector

It's more likely that some dealer thought he could convince a T206 novice that this was the rare Demmitt St. Louis variety.

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Posted By: martin dalziel

I hadn't thought of that, but in this case i don't think so.
I bought it and a bunch of other t206's with names written on them and other tobacco cards at an estate sale years ago. They came out of a scrap book.

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Posted By: Art M.

Tinker (portrait), Chicago Nat'l.

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Posted By: William Heitman

The die cuts are really interesting. There is at least one example of a die cut Wagner. I once heard a dealer at a show who was selling several of these die cuts tell a looker that "that was the way they originally came out"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Posted By: Ray

Anyone have one that's dirtier than this? The Iron Man above looks like the King of Dirty so far, but this one here is a good contender for the crown.

I remember someone answering a post recently saying that many T206 cards would be thrown on the street by adult smokers who pulled them out of packs. Kids would wait outside of tobacco shops to pick the discarded cards off the ground. I think this one was on the ground for a few days (or weeks) before a kid spotted it. Granted, a lot of things could've caused the nastiness of this card, but that's the story I like to think of.

I've posted scans of this one at least one other time on this board that I can think of, and while it's a "beater" at best, I'm proud of it as it's my first T206 and will (probably) never leave my collection...