Interesting article on the "10 Most Desirable Cards" on ESPN.com

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Posted By: Donald Johnson

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=baseballcards/060728

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Posted By: Joann

Very interesting. We debate here regularly about the meaning of "desireable" or "sought after", but the same cards seem to pop up in all of them. I wonder if the list would vary if it were based on desireability to 19th Century collectors, or set collectors, or type collectors, or team collectors, or HOF collectors, etc. I bet it would still be close to the same list (except for 19th C collectors) just because of rarity and cost.

Joann

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Posted By: Scot Reader

The Top 10 selections are decent, but the author of the article should have consulted this board before putting fingers to keyboard to avoid spreading misinformtation--first he calls T206 Plank an error card and then he mentions the unsupported broken printing plate theory as a reason for its scarcity.

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Posted By: Peter_Spaeth

The Anson will "usually" sell between 75 and 100K? Maybe he is referring to another Anson and not the N162?

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Posted By: barry arnold

With Scot, I had to cringe when i read the commentary on Plank.
Still, i was pretty ok with the choices. I was particularly pleased that
there was no Clay Dalrymple

barry

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Posted By: fkw

3 errors in the article

1st The Baltimore News Ruth is not 6" X 9", it is 2-5/8" by 3-5/8".

2nd the T206 Plank is not an error, just short printed.

3rd the Anson he is talking about is the N172 Portrait in uniform, not the N162 pictured.