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T206CollectorM116
This may not be an answer, but after I more or less finished the acquisition (as opposed to upgrade) phase of my T206 set, I began to look for a new set to collect. I quickly picked up three M116's -- Matty, Johnson and Chase. They were beautiful (still are, but I just don't own them anymore), but I sold the Matty and Johnson to get cash to continue the upgrade of my T206 set. It seems as far as a stray from T206, I just keep getting pulled back in. But on thing that I did notice about M116 in my brief forray is that they sort of all look the same. Sure, attention to details will show you the differences, but when you are showing off your collection to people, they will be non-plussed by the scores of pastel portraits of people that were baseball players, but now look like faded ghosts of yesteryear that fill photo albums at antique stores. It is a rather boring set to flip through if you do not have some basic understanding of the subjects various personalities.
T205
I think that the T206 portraits are much more engaging than the T205 portraits, which, again, like the M116, basically make up the entire set. Sure, the NLers are closer up than the ALers, and there are a few fielding portraits, but by and large, they're just ugly. I've never liked the color scheme. It's sort of clown faces with makeup surrounded by a tacky gold color. Just ugly, to me. But I know this is just taste.