[Ronnie73]

Originally Posted by taul166

Has anyone focused on a SC 649 OP subset and how difficult is it to do in low to mid grade (graded or raw)? It is a small subset.

Thanks.

About 8 years ago I started working on this subset. My goal was to assemble the subset in PSA 4 condition that also had nice centering and eye appeal. I spent 4 years tracking down 31 out of 34 cards. I'm only missing the Johnson, Lajoie, and Mathewson cards. During those 4 years, a few of each of those cards showed up but were either off center top to bottom or were very over priced. Since then, I kinda lost interest in the subset and bounced around to other parts of the set. At some point I'll try and complete the subset. I'm 6 cards away from the 520 set and the Johnson Portrait and the Mathewson White Cap are 2 of the 6 missing. So it would make sense for me to find the SC 649OP's of these 2 cards since I'd be checking them off of two checklists, my 520 set, and my SC 649OP set.

As far as difficulty, I wouldn't call any of them rare. They all seem to have been printed in fairly equal quantities. Hall Of Famer's are only difficult due to cost. Mike Powers would be my pick as the over all most difficult. It's the only card out of the 34 that is from the 150 Only Print Group. So technically it has the smallest print run when factoring in all possible card backs compared to other cards in the SC 649OP subset.

Chris (atx840) has a beautiful scan of this subset that he assembled, which at the time, inspired me to start my own subset. Hopefully he doesn't mind me sharing, but here's his scan of his subset collection that inspired me to start mine nearly 8 years ago. Before that, Me and Chris were both collecting Hal Chase Blue Portrait Back Runs. Once I couldn't afford anymore of the Hal Chase rare backs, I saw his SC 649OP scan, and found my next adventure. I recommend everyone check out Chris's other T206's. Lot's of collecting inspiration within the scans of his collection. https://www.flickr.com/photos/7321807@N05/sets/