Hey Frank - great meeting you this week and swapping a few stories. I didn't have much time to leave my table, but I did pick up a WaJo portrait - Sweet Cap Fac 649 overprint - to up my MN to 512

Hi Frank! It was so great to meet you and hang out for a little while at the Net54 "meet-up" on Friday night. I also got a chance to talk to Mark M and Ted Z at their table, I had so much fun!
Off grade T206 cards were EVERYWHERE at this years National Convention, and I did some major damage to my want list. At the National, I picked up 45 beat up T206 cards to add to my binder, including 12 S/Lers, and these 14 HOFers. My monster number is now 484.
Larry
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Please add me to the list. My number is 30.

Looking good, Larry !!!!!!!!

500 is just around the corner :)

Another Milestone
 

With this year's National Card Show acquisitions, there are now over 50,000 cards listed on the Monster Number Thread. Imagine that.:eek:

Monster number
 

Frank,

I was at 518 at one time, but I have sold a few the past year. Currently my #1 set is 477 and set #2 is 139. Bill

Hi Frank, could you add me to the list? I believe my 9 T206 puts me in a tie for 210th place! :)

With a few purchases today, I'm officially 2/3 of the way to my 520-card 'set'. Please bump me to 344 when you find the time!

Going backwards, Frank
 

My remaining set stands at 108....for now

Hi Frank

If you could please, I need a small bump in my Monster Number.

Now that the National has come & gone, my new number is 369.

Thanks

Jantz

Going down the list
 

Hi Frank,

Currently have my Magie up for auction in the Huggins auction (going for a steal even considering its condition), oh well.

bottom line is that I'm now at 520.

Thanks, Joe (obcjoe)

Frank -- please update my Monster Number to 253. Almost halfway there. For my second set, my Monster Number is 21 (i.e. there are 21 fronts for which I have at least two cards); for my third set, it is 4; and for my fourth through sixth sets, it is 1.

519 Mansco

217
 

Doc, please update me to 217

thx

It's been awhile but when in Rome .......... 210 ole sport.

Now at 509
 

Took three years but 509 is now mine.

Just under 1/4 of the way to my goal. The finish line is nearing but with many large purchases left, it will be a haul.

Please update to 385 whenever you find time.

Thanks!

Bump me up to 112. Finally picked up a Joe Tinker Portrait!

Rich

Way to go Rats! Congrats on 600

Frank,

I consider this as 521 :)

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Your friend, Scott

Wow - back to back Magie's!

One could argue that only one has a back.:D

Congrats, Scott!

Congrats Scott !!!!!! :eek::eek:

That card is amazing !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Made a lot of good progress in the past few weeks, including finishing off the four McGraws and three Mattys, adding several HOFers and Southern Leaguers, and getting my first Lajoie from the B/S/T. Please update to 449 when you can.

Thank you!!

Holding strong at 3

Slowed to a slow crawl......... 128

240!

up to
 

112 with my last pick up, no dupes yet either

1

Hi, Frank.

Up to 83 after picking this up from the B/S/T. If you could please update my Monster Number accordingly, I would appreciate it.

Best regards,

Eric

addition
 

Just sorting through boxes of cards, found one more of "the monster"
Puts me @ 113 cards so far, still no dupes

T206
 

Frank, As of Oct 17, I will be at 0. Thanks, William Todd

Ahhh
 

Ya beat me, Bill ... I'm at 4 now and looking to get to 0 as well...

Best wishes.
--
Mike

I can see the finish line. Up to 484 after several pickups from the last few weeks. Please update whenever you get a chance.

Thanks!

picked up a few. New MN is 27

Hi Frank,

I am now up to 84, after picking this Marquard up at the Philly Show today. If you could please update my Monster Number accordingly, I would appreciate it.

Best regards,

Eric

Please update my monster # to 55.
Thanks

After a major selloff and a few purchases, I am at 72 in set #1 and 52 in set #2. Thanks.

Well, it's been a while but you can put me at 519, with a big thank you to David for an O'Hara.

I'm restarting from scratch again, but already up to 32 with some tough backs! Glad to be back! :) Add me!

I have passed the century mark. Now at 102.

260

Is been a great summer!

I have slowed down for a while but just added number 513.

Pls update to 173.

Hey Frank please update my number to #251

Some of my newest and proudest additions:

5

I just got another one. I am up to 15.

Hi Frank I last reported two and a half months ago, and since then I've added 18 cards. My new total is 502.
Had some success in the latest Brockelman & Luckey Auction, and my winnings arrived today. They experienced some minor surgery on my workbench as I cracked them out of their PSA holders so they would fit into the binder:)
Three Southern Leaguers and Kid Elberfeld (Washington).
Larry
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You are making great progress Josh. The Monster is defeating me. Have lost the motivation.

Good work, buddy!! I'm trailing you by only 470! LOL

Please update my # to 78! Starting to get somewhere!

I'm sure I'm over 100 with my back runs and doubles

1000
 

After nearly 4 years, we have a winner.;):eek::D

What????? Pardon my french HOLY SHIT and whomever is the winner would you be so kind to share the holy grail and his 3 brothers ?

I saw that WOW!
Larry

Larry and Josh -----> very nice progress :)

................ keep them coming, 1000 is just around the corner :rolleyes:

Fun stuff, Scott

OK, doc...what does he win? :D

Obviously, not a T206 card. He has all of those already.

Congrats to Powell.

Also, haven't updated in awhile, I am back in the game, plese update MN to 220.

Thanks.

514

266

Have met the halfway part of completion mark and climbing up Everest now. 264

318
 

Please add me in - I'm at 318 (or will be, when a couple of packages arrive!). I've been picking up t206 off and on since my dad gave me my first one, 30 or 35 years ago. I still have it. In fact, it's this guy.

http://i.imgur.com/AXYtT4b.jpg?3

Matty is the only card my dad ever gave me and said, "You are not allowed to trade this."

Other prizes include these:

http://i.imgur.com/CA3vQXV.jpg?1
http://i.imgur.com/5TpxTbl.jpg?1
http://i.imgur.com/5knVP16.jpg?1


I am not, it should be clear, all that concerned about condition! I like cards that look their age.

I need the two Cobb portraits and Cy Young portrait to reach my goal of 518. Then I guess I will be looking to upgrade or to sell other items to finance O'Hara and Demmitt variations or even a Magie. It's a dream but for now I am at 515 and never thought I would get this far.

Frank - I am selling three more cards on the 'bay tonight, so please take my number down to 50.


Thanks,
Raymond
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Having trouble uploading photos but I recently picked up two Cy Youngs and need only the two Cobb portraits before I take a break. I am at 516.

After WSSCA, now at 371

438 is my monster number. I am hoping to pick up one or 2 more this month if everything goes to plan. I only need 1 common and the rest are southern league and HOF.

Chipping away at the Monster.
 

After purchasing my first T206 on 10/28/2014 (Christy Mathewson - Dark Cap - SGC 60), I was hooked. I reached 186 today with the majority of my collection being SGC 60 and PSA 5's or higher, 10 different backs and 24 HOF variations. I have to thank all of the Net54 members that I have had dealing with over the past 13 months. Looking forward to many future transactions...thanks.

Up to 84

Picked up another one
 

Matty Dark Cap is on the way putting me at 510

Updated Monster Number
 

So...thanks to Lee at Sterling, forazzurri2axz and Barry Sloate a long time ago...
Frank you can count me in at an anemic and modest 71 unique Monster Cards.

Wow, someone hit 1000, awesome!

Picked up a decent Cobb red portrait. When it arrives I will be at 517.

520
 

About nine months after picking up my first T206 back in February, I've reached the magical number (for me, anyway) of 520. I set out to do 518, but picked up this Demmitt and O'Hara St. Louis' from two board members last week. Ironically, both are missing the upper left corner! Please also start a Set #2 for me as well (58) since I've upgraded 58 cards as well.

My set is mostly P-G, but pretty in my eyes and getting more aesthetically pleasing with numerous upgrades so far. I doubt I'll try to complete a set #2, but will be continuing to upgrade with some cleaner cards and more unique backs.

I also freed about 60 cards that were encapsulated, so there's that.

Big shoutout to many members that helped me. I purchased from about 25 or so. Big hat tip to Frank as well as the two guys I probably bought the most from - Scott (mybuddyinc) and Luke (lukelyon). Can't possibly thank everyone since I'm sure I'll forget several, but if you helped me with a card (or several) along the way, thank you!

PERSONAL NOTES:
First card - Harry Howell Sovereign
Last card (of the 518) - JF Kiernan
Favorite card - Matty Dark cap
Favorite card I own - Either Home Run Baker OM or Bender Portrait EPDG
Most annoying card to find - Chance red portrait
Best deal - Getting Titus in a lot of about 200 commons
Favorite achievement - Getting all four Cobbs (3 Graded 1s and 1 Auth/1 PB) for under $2,000
Most shameful achievement - Losing a Lundgren KC card somehow ... don't ask
Non-Common Piedmont/Sweet Cap - 15% (American Beauty, Cycle, EPDG, Tolstoi, Old Mill, Polar Bear, Sovereign, Sweet Cap Overstrike)

I like your stats; i've got a low grade collection as well, at 518 (missing Cobb bat off, but have Demmitt StL). I've lost track of my first card, and don't know if I have a favorite, but my personal notes would include:

- Reprints mistakenly bought: 1 - Ed Foster. It wasn't even a good reprint, I just didn't look at the scan closely.
- Card I bid the most times on before I won it: Ray Ryan - I was stubborn and wouldn't spend more than $30 on it and went a couple years of semi-active bidding before I got it.
- Number of times screwed in trades: twice, once on the old board (anyone remember Brandon Rusnak?), once here (I think the guy may have died, he just disappeared from the board, and had been active prior... was just a couple of beater dupes)
- Card that I thought I owned for years, but did not: Dahlen, Brooklyn. The Boston version must have tricked me one day...

Thank you - your notes are interestingly as well. I didn't buy any reprints but the biggest mistake sort of along those lines is buying a few that were trimmed that weren't advertised as such.

Card I bid on the most and lost out on was probably Mordecai Brown or Frank Chance red portraits. Those just took me a while to get within what I wanted to pay.

Didn't make any trades but bought probably 100+ cards through the B/S/T. Was fortunate to not have a single bad deal.

Way to go, Anson! I need you to start upgrading asap. ;)

30 for Mighty Casey

Congrats! :D

Frank, since I just did a back census of my T206s and posted about it, you might as well update my Monster number. I'm at 353 for my first set and 28 for my second set. No need to go beyond that, though there are two cards I'm doing back runs on for which I have seven each (Camnitz arms up and Wiltse portrait with cap).