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Posted By: Paul

One thing that's always confused me is how much difficulty Jefferson Burdick had finding a T206 Wagner. If I remember the story correctly, he and most other collectors at first didn't believe it existed. Burdick then went many years without owning one, until a friend finally sent him one (for free, I think), not too many years before he donated his collection to the Metropolitan Museum.

I've never seen Burdick's collection, but I've always assumed he had a T216 of Wagner, an E94, an E103, and lots of others. I bet he never doubted the existence of these cards. And I bet he didn't struggle as long to find them. Maybe I'm dead wrong on both of these bets. But it just seems strange that Burdick had such a hard time finding a card that, by his very lofty standards, isn't that rare.