Posted By:
Tim Newcomb2001 National, Cleveland. Late Saturday afternoon.
I passed by a table at which I'd looked at some T206 earlier in the week. They had seemed overpriced, but I think I bought one. Now there was a small sign saying "T206s $995." I did a double-take, then asked innocently, "how many of these cards does the sign refer to?" When the dealer answered "All of them," my jaw dropped and my hand reached for my wallet. Actually I had to borrow some cash from a dealer friend to complete the deal, but i got them (my friend got a nice Ed Walsh for floating the bucks):
total haul was:
296 different T206s, including about 35 HOFers and rarities, and 25-30 Southern Leaguers. None of the huge cards, but one each of Young, Mathewson, Johnson, Speaker, Elberfeld (WAS), etc. Not a single card was worth less than $10-- the average was probably $20-25. Like Josh I had to do a lot of soaking, and some do have back damage, but many of the fronts are EX or better.
Total fluke: if I had walked by there five minutes later, those cards would have been gone.
Funny, that hasn't happened to me at the last four Nationals........
take heart: great things can happen, even in the midst of thousands of other hungry collectors--
Tim