Boy, I do love both.
T206 has Wagner, and multiple poses of so many key players. It's such a challenge to complete, and there are so many ways to collect - HOFers, teams, back varieties, individual players, Southern Leaguers - and someone made this analogy to me once and it stuck, but the portrait cards look like they could be mounted over someone's fireplace.
T205, though, are absolutely gorgeous, IMO the most beautiful prewar designs. In higher grades, the gold borders are stunning, and the set has its own bunch of interesting variations and tough back varieties. It's a much smaller set, so it's much easier to complete (despite the challenges), and I think a T205 Cobb just might be the most beautiful card ever made.
I've taken a run at collecting each set, and gotten about halfway through with each. All I have to do is handle cards from either set, and I fall back in love with them almost instantly.
But since I love the mysteries of the sets I've collected, and love uncovering new details and learning new things about the sets I collect, I've got to go with T206. There's just so much there to enjoy and learn, regardless of how long you've collected them.
So, T206 for me, by a hair.
-Al
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