[yanks87]

Quick question for the group. As I dig further into the sets that I am chasing, as well as the research that I am doing on the '49 Leaf cards, I am noticing that there are certain elements that are accepted by the "mainstream" collecting world, (price guides, grading houses, etc.), but in many cases, there are deeper stories that fall outside of the accepted or documented variations, that in my opinion make for more compelling collecting stories. So the question is, are there things that are known and established by collectors, but since they are not recognized by the powers that be their potential true value is not recognized?

A couple of quick examples:

T201 - two factory backs, 649 and 30, with the 30's being tougher in spots to find, the Lord/Dougherty being the toughest to find with only 5-6 know on the board

T207 + T205 - Different company backs, and the factories associated with them - anonymous backs T207's with factory 3 and 25

1949 Leaf - There are 3 accepted variations, but the variations run throughout the entire non-short print set, with changes that indicate that there was a second printing of the first run of cards.

I'd love to hear the thoughts of the group to if the non-mainstream variations are worth more, or less if they are just known to the die hards, or if it takes the mainstream accepting them for the variations to be "real".