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T206Collector...I have never been much of an autograph collector with cards/photos I did not get autographed myself. You are always taking someone's word for it if you did not see the item signed in person; you are paying for someone's word, more than you are paying for the ink on the image.
Don't get me wrong, I love my Marquard autographed T206 cards, and James Spence has signed off on them twice -- once at PSA/DNA and more recently at SGC/JSA -- but, at the end of the day, Mr. Spence was not present when Marquard signed those cards and neither was I. I will never be 100% sure the cards were not autographed by someone other than old Rube himself. Would I like to own a PSA 8 or 9 graded T206 Mathewson portrait? Sure I would. But I could never justify the obscene amount of cash that would cost. And I would always wonder whether those corners weren't just a little too sharp, if you know what I mean.