My T206 back census
Tonight I decided to go through my list of T206s and count how many I have of each back, including factory number variations. I have that info marked on the checklist I use to keep track of them (a copy of Mark Peavey's "The Mysteries of T206"), so it wasn't that hard. This is not the distribution you would get if you took a random census of T206s, because I've made an effort to get tough backs, so they're overrepresented. But I haven't really paid attention to the common backs, and it's interesting to see how their distribution differs in my collection from the scarcity rankings that are out there. Sweet Caporal 350, Factory 25 is listed as the third most common back on T206Resource and T206.org, but they're only tied for 12th most common in my collection, with the same number as Tolstoi and Sovereign 460. Anyway, here are the 31 different backs I have, and the number of each:
Piedmont 350/25: 118
Piedmont 150/25: 53
Sweet Caporal 350/30: 32
Piedmont 460/25: 26
Sweet Caporal 150/30: 17
Polar Bear: 15
El Principe de Gales: 13
Sovereign 350 (Forest Green): 11
Old Mill (Southern League): 11
Old Mill (Base Ball Stars): 9
Sweet Caporal 150/649: 8
Sweet Caporal 350/25: 7
Sweet Caporal 150/25: 7
Sweet Caporal 460/30: 7
Sweet Caporal 460/42overprint: 7
Tolstoi: 7
Sovereign 460: 7
Cycle 350: 6
Sovereign 150: 4
American Beauty 350 (frame): 4
Sweet Caporal 460/25: 4
Cycle 460: 4
Hindu (brown): 4
Carolina Brights: 3
Sweet Caporal 460/42: 2
Sovereign 350 (Apple Green): 2
American Beauty 460: 2
Lenox (black): 2
American Beauty 350 (no frame): 1
Piedmont 460/42: 1
Broad Leaf 350: 1
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