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HoytdunkLook, the last thing I look to do is getting in a pissing contest about T206.
The bottomline is some of the T206 from the Southern Find did have a dog ear. I am not getting this third or forthhand. I saw the cards. In fact I saw more than 40 of them. I am not saying everyone had dogears, but some did. That is fact, not conjecture.
The last T206 I handled from that find had the following history. The find had several partners that, after a few buyouts on the deal, ended up with three partners. Those three sold the cards to Southern Cards, hence the "Southern Find" label was born.
The first show one of the three original partners did after the find was in Winston-Salem, NC and a friend of mine bought, what he thought was the best looking "common". The "common" ended up being a Hall-of-Famer.....Vic Willis.
I looked at the card at the 1999 Atlanta National. The owner did not want to sell it at the time. He submitted the card to PSA in 2003 and it came back whacked (it had a dogear). He ran it on EBAY, where I purchased it in the summer or fall of 2003.
As I said, this is fact, not fiction.
Dan, you beat me by two years. I bought my first T206 in 1971.
My only point is that some SF cards had a dogear, thus is a POSSIBLE explanation of why the card in question on EBAY looks like it does. I am sorry if my opinions and statement of facts caused a disagreement.