Hello, newcomer here
 

Hello everyone,

I am just saying hello to the folks on this board.

My modern collecting interests are in T206 related material. Topps 206 (especially the mini cards), eTopps T206, and the Historic Autographs of T206 players.

I used to open boxes on a somewhat regular basis, but now I only open a box per year at most.

At one time I had a near complete set of 2001 Topps Archives Autographs, but have sold off the majority as my collecting interests drifted towards the T206s.

Welcome to the boards; we have some other collectors of that set here. Doing the back variations?

Welcome aboard, Charlie

I can say that prior to me being able to find the tobacco card sized pages like in your picture, I could have cared less about those size cards from any product. It was after getting some of those pages that I had attempted to build the mini set (of any back/parallel) for 2015 Allen and Ginter. I have since abandoned any attempt at building or maintaining a baseball set, so now I just have a binder with all those different mini cards I had picked up over the years.

I enjoy the set building part of the hobby more than speculating $$$ and only going for my favorite handful of players. The internet makes it possible now to slowly build these somewhat obscure insert sets. But it does take a lot of time.