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Posted By: fkw

Ive also heard there are roughly 2000 of each (commons) T206 card in existance (roughly 1,000,000 total T206 cards survive today). T206 is the most common of all T cards (hundreds are on eBay every week). Many inexperienced collectors/fans thinking the T206 Honus Wagner card is the rarest card in the hobby. The fact is, there are thousands of vintage baseball cards far rarer than the T206 Wagner....... Every single card from T208, T209, T211, T213-1, T213-3, T214, T215, T216, T217 etc. are far rarer that the so called Very Rare T206 Honus Wagner. The Wagner is not a true rarity, it just happens to be from the most popular baseball card set of all time, pictures one of the most popular players, and has a good story behind it (along with big time hype!). The bottom line, the T206 Wagner's (and Plank's) are not rare as far as vintage cards go, they are just highly sought after (supply and demand) and a must for a complete set of the king of all baseball card sets. My opinion the super rare (a couple known) 1914 Baltimore News Babe Ruth should be the only card selling in the 6 figure + amount.


To me, If you only see 1-3 examples of a certain type of card on eBay per year, Id say the set is very rare and most likely there are less than 5-10 of each player known. If you have never seen an example of a type of card on eBay (or maybe 1 every couple years) the set is very rare (ie. T208, T217, E222, Big Eater, E92 Croft "red ink", Balimore News, D380, Crescent Ice Cream, Allegheny, Tarzan Bread, Pebble Beach Clothing, Western Playground, D303 Mothers Bread, Clarks Bread, D304 Martens Bakery, BF104, Demaree Diecuts, Cardinet Oakland Oaks, Derby Cigar, Leader Novelty Co., 1923 Fleer, Honey Boy, Leader Theatre. Over the last 25 years Ive seen far more examples of the very rare "Just So Tobacco" tradecards than any Holmes to Homes Bread, Greiners Bread (do they really exist?), Martens Bakery, Korger Bread (I own one, do others exist?).

ca.1913 Cardinet Candy Oakland Oaks
Anyone (besides M.Macrae) own any of these?


ca.1941 Kroger Bread
Anyone seen another from this set?

Rare big $$ cards are out there in eBay land, if you look hard enough,.... ie the 1886 Lorillard Detroit card ($12,000 high book) that sold yesturday (in the scrapbook category), with the seller thinking it was a $5-$10 item at best (and she didnt even think it was the best item on the scrapbook page). 4-5 years ago (with my luck) I would have won the Lorillards card for about $50-$100,.... But the big finds dont exist for me anymore (I still find them, but so do others with far bigger wallets) Damn! Oh well, Thats what makes eBay treasure hunting so fun Happy Hunting fkw