How do you organize your T206s

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Posted By: Frank Wakefield

This searching through T206s looking for EPDG backs, and then for Sov 150 backs, has worn me out. Especially when looking for backs of those 7 cards of Ames, Doyle, Ewing, Jones STL, Lindaman, Lundgren CHI, and Schulte CHI.

So... How do you guys currently organize your T206s??? I used to have them in Beckett number order. Then, after a few years, I went to the completely alphabetical order, as in the Standard Catalog. That was a pain when I'd completed the southern leaguers, if I'd left them in Beckett order I'd feel satisfaction in seeing them all together.

But then I got to thinking, and spread out the little rascals on the dining room table, having been inspired by another rereading of Mr. Lipset's writings on T206s. I looked at his lists, thought of Bert Sugar and his books, and decided that the collectors of years past had it right when they sorted the cards by teams. It is beautiful! You can see the progressions in series that way, the changes in the poses. It was fantastic, until it came to trying to recall which team "Ewing" played for so I could resond to the question about the 7 cards. For that I had to look at one of the "new" lists. But my cards are still by team. Which is how I think they should be cataloged, but newcomers would never understand. Anyone else sort by team?

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Posted By: T206Collector

I once put about 100 T206 cards together by color, and then spread them out like a rainbow. It was beautiful.... Red cards at the top, purply pinkish ones at the bottom, orange, yellow, green and blue in the middle. They looked stunning. But that's no way to organize a collection!

I keep them in what I think you refer to as Beckett order: Major Leaguers, Minor Leaguers and Southern Leaguers, in alhpa order within each class.

What I want to do is have them all described on a spreadsheet so I can just look and sort them there to answer questions about factories and brands.

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Posted By: Ray Piskadlo

I do the same as T206 collector... Majors, Minors, SL... each alphabetical. I keep my own spreadsheet on Excel, organized the same way, that includes back type, date purchased, purchase price, and grade.

Each card is in its own penny sleeve and top loader, unless graded. Since I collect poor/fair cards, it's easy to take them out and hold them in my hands.

Here's my Brown portrait for example:

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Posted By: warshawlaw

I put all the portraits with similar backgrounds together, all the action cards, etc. How I wish that Evers portrait was a red background like the others...

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Posted By: Rob NYC

I organize by team.

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Posted By: Bob Donaldson

I put then in 15 pocket sheets in alphabetical order.

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Posted By: peter ullman

I have mine in a stack of top loaders in order by backs.

pete in mn

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Posted By: Ted Zanidakis

My 1st set (521 cards) I followed the formatted checklist in Bill Heitman's book.
Alphabetically within each Major League Team....then ditto for the Minor Lgers.
And ditto for the So. Lgers.

The 2nd set (520 cards) I straightforwardly arranged the players alphabetically.

Presently, I am working on a 3rd set that comprises only Piedmont backs. And,
the cards are arranged according to their Series. For example my 150 Series is
now "complete" with 153 cards (no Wagner, Plank, or Magie).
My 350 Series now has 203 cards. My 460-only Series is complete with 48 cards,
and my Southern Leaguers are complete with 48 cards....all Piedmont.

I still need 114 Piedmont 350 Series cards to attain the 518 total for this set.

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Posted By: john/z28jd

I have them in no particular order and can never find specific ones.Im about as organized as baseball was before 1871

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Posted By: steve yawitz

Mine are alphabetized, then by series/back if I happen to have more than one card of a given player.