Favorite T206 Artistic Flare Pose card or cards

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Posted By: vetekbob

In the chat room last night, we got to talkin about T206 as to artistic flare and registration and favorite poses. Thank you goes out to Wonka for fueling my new addiction even more lol If I become homeless from my new set addiction, I figure I can always use the holdered cards I have to make some kind of shelter to keep my head try lol Hope it doesnt come to that though. My question to the rabid T206 fans and or collectors is which card or cards are your favorite from the set pose wise and artistic wise and why?

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Posted By: Josh K.

I dont own it yet, but one of my favorites is the Lefty Leifeld pitching pose.

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Posted By: vetekbob

Good morning Josh. that certainly is a great pose card with lots of brillant color and flare and just so happens I was drawn to the card as well as for one of my first t206 purchases.


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Posted By: barrysloate

The Cobb bat off shoulder is particularly colorful and a beautiful rendering and was always one of my favorites.

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Posted By: vetekbob

I agree there Barry and I hope to snag it one day. Some of my favs also are the sheckard and the miller huggins ( hands at mouth)

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Posted By: Brian Weisner

Here are a few of mine.....

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Posted By: vetekbob

I like the bresnahan and the overall The contrast on the overall as well as the background scene really make it stand out doesn it? Good lookin cards!

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Posted By: JimB

Lajoie with bat on shoulder has always been one of my favorites.
JimB

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Posted By: Favorite T206

I think the beauty of the T206 set is really the variety it offers. With portraits and action shots, and a variety of backgrounds.

One of the most interesting to me is Burns with the left handed glove on his right hand. It's also one of the ugliest of the set.

I've always liked this one of Oberlein with the two tone pink contrasing with his face.

Cobb bat off is one of my absolute favorites, probably because I look at it so much; I watch it on every sale on ebay; it is most most expensive missing card.

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Posted By: vetekbob

nice post t206guy Now we are talkin! gotta like the pink hue backgrounds for sure! my name is vetekbob and I am a 206 addict lol

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Posted By: barrysloate

Actually, what makes the T206 set so popular among other things is the scope of its beautiful artwork. The N162 set is objectively nicer, but there are 8 cards. The T206 set has 523 of which the vast majority are just so well rendered. What about the Johnson portrait? One of the most beautiful baseball cards ever made. I would guess that if there was a contest to nominate the most popular set in the history of baseball card production, T206 would get the blue ribbon.

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Posted By: vetekbob

The Walter Johnson is a very stricking card indeed and one that is gonna cost big bucks for me down the road but worth it lol I think one could study the set for years looking at every nuance of each card and still find something new every day that they missed before. Maybe I am just whacked out of my mind in my newbie passion for the set but if I am I hope it never ever wears off lol
Barry, you are certainly more versed on the subject than me as I have lots to learn and to discover. I am be way wrong on this and feel free to correct me if I am but from e newbie perspective Ebay wise, I cant help but wonder if lots of wonderful commons get overlooked sometimes because they are not HOF or they are not ports. Maybe its because many already have the so called common cards that my newbie observation is skewed.

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Posted By: Bill

Here are a few of my favorites. More of my favorites can be viewed on my website. Bill



http://www.freewebs.com/bb5714/index.htm

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Posted By: Steve Dawson

I've always been partial to the Willie Keeler batting pose, maybe in part because it was the first T206 I ever bought, back in 1979, for $3.


Steve

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Posted By: vetekbob

thanks for the post Bill the herzog card was one we were talking about last night. The Hughie Jennings is one that I am sure collectors have talked about for years lol What a great pose! Just makes you wonder what was he thinking or said to an opposing player to get such a pose thanks for sharing Bill Such pic postings help me to get my fix lol

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Posted By: jay behrens

I'm partial to my rare die-cut Johnson portrait.

The slabs may protect you, but don't think they will protect the cards too well as the sonic weld is not a perfect seal and water will leak in.



Jay

I like to sit outside drink beer and yell at people. If I did this at home I would be arrested, so I go to baseball games and fit right in.

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Posted By: vetekbob

I will take your word on that jay as I would hate to test that out lol

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Posted By: barry sloate

Bob- What do you mean when you say commons get overlooked? To a veteran collector all the poses are recognizable (I think I can still name all the players looking only at the picture). Do you mean some are undervalued?
Eventually after seeing so many T206 -I figured I've handled at least 10,000- you can get a bit jaded, but enjoy them while they are still new to you. I will never forget buying my first complete set in 1984- all 520 cards, average Vg-EX, with at least one of each back- for $4000. It was perhaps one of my very favorite memories of my early years in the hobby.

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Posted By: vetekbob

Barry, yes undervalued in an artistic way as well from a much small extent from the market perspective. Am I wrong in my newbie perspective? I agree that each and every card from the set is wonderful in its own way whether the player was well known or not. I guess what I meant to convey and fell short of in my previous posting was that whether card is low pop report or whether its of a HOF still makes them each equally wonderful at least to me from a individual card perspective as well as from a set perspective. My posting was also to rekindle the flames of passion for the cards themselves and to hopefully not lose sight of its "blue ribbon" as you hit the nail on the head on the head when one is collecting the set.

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Posted By: Julie Vognar

I reealize there's another one in this thread, but I've never seem one like this one.



and this is my N162 (you're probably getting sick of it by now!):

While I'm at it:

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Posted By: barrysloate

The Herzog sweater pose is one of my favorites too. And to Bob, the T206 set has been analyzed to death, so it's hard to imagine any aspect of it that is overlooked or undervalued. I think at some point in their collecting nearly everyone has fallen for its allure. They don't call it a classic for nothing.

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Posted By: vetekbob

I have to agree with Julie that Wonka's Herzog has the brightest color that I have seen thus far since I started workin on the t206. I have seen several psa 5's on Ebay that didnt have that glow and depth of color. And the N162 is ONE sweet lookin card not to mention the mayo. Never get tired of looking at them Repeating to myself, must stay focused. lol I cant wait to hear what Wonka will say on the thread as I am sure he has a lot to say and share Heres hoping this thread will send Wonka over the top to get more T206 lol Can one ever really have enough?
Robert

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Posted By: martin dalziel

for T206's, George gets my vote

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btw, its the scan thats trimmed, not the card

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Posted By: Josh K.

Vetekbob,

The Leifield that you posted is very nice, but not the pose that I was writing about. With my apologies to Bill for using his scan, here is the Leifeld that I was thinking about:



The Davis posted above is another one of my favs.

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Posted By: vetekbob

Josh,
I just looked back at your post and what a maroooon I am lol Completely misread. My mistake. sorry bout that

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Posted By: Brian Weisner

I don't know why this pose of Matty isn't more popular???

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Posted By: John

Great Thread Bob,

Of course I’m biased loving T206’s and all. But also a very hard question. Asking a T206 collector what his favorite card is, is liking asking a crack addict to cut back a little. Julie I never get tired of seeing those cards especially the Mayo’s some of the best Mayo’s I have ever seen. Just glad to be able to post with this one. With all the 19th stuff lately I have felt a little left out.

Also Glad I’m about done with the set between john/z28jd and Lee and now you Bob there wont be any t206’s left to buy.

Here are my votes for great T206’s.

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Posted By: vetekbob

Good to see you post a few Wonka I cant make out the name of the second player from the left but that is a great pose as well and that fritz card looks a heck of a lot nice nicer than the one I bid on yesterday thats for sure. Its also good to see the trophy card I just love seein the pics of everyones T206's It does this addict good. How bout some more pics wonka?
Robert

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Posted By: cn

I have always loved the green Cobb. His eyes look more intense with the green background

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Posted By: vetekbob

I prefer the green portrait over the red cobb one. And for whatever reason, the green portrait is one that I dont see a lot on ebay slabbed in a psa4 and up. Another thing that came up last night in chat was the chief bender port. wonka brought up the fact as I believe jd also noted that the bender ports seem to be OC with very little white border on the top. I like the Bender portrait even if he wasnt HOF and I had layed off a bid the other day for one that was OC and then when the subject came up last night I found it curious. Are there certain 206 that seem to have an anamoly for being OC?
Robert

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Posted By: John

Some more T206's for Bob.

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Posted By: vetekbob

sure do like the chase card wonka sweet sweet stuff you have there my friend.

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Posted By: drew

i think most of the boston nat'l cards are very eye appealing
also i like the reulback hands at side and the shulte front view


Drew

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Posted By: Mike P.

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Posted By: qualitycards.com

If ya like the small T206 poses, then you gotta love the few T3's that use the same pose albeit on a much grander scale.

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Posted By: qualitycards.com

Here's another...

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Posted By: Julie Vognar

(couple of imperfections)