Also we have been asking Scott for a scan of this card for some time I know Jim R has.
The Levy's are good pals or communicate with some of the top T206 collectors in the hobby Dan McKee, Jim R, Brian W, Art M, Scott M, Mike Sarno, Ted Z heck for purely self promoting reasons I'll even say I know a bit about T206's.
They often travel to trade shows with stacks of cards for show & tell. Yet in the years of hearing about a factory cut brown Old Mill and asking to see it has never been presented. That seems very odd to me, heck we have even had lunch at the Levy's where we all have brought our collections for show & tell. What better time to have round table discussion on this new discovery and get behind it. We as collectors debunked the over prints to SGC & PSA we could easily get them to add this real new color OM card to the list. They even sent me the Hart card to review and inspect during the FBI investigation, why not this?
In fact such an important card I would be hard pressed to imagine anyone let alone the Levy's sell such a rare item as a factory cut new color brown Old Mill.
They also deal with some of the largest auction houses in the biz. In fact REA wouldn't even place the card in the auction. That seems very short sided of Rob if in fact it is a new type of T206 again makes no sense.
Also the story on the acquisition of the card has changed a bit, again odd.
I'm not saying the Levy's are nefarious folks who were out to screw anyone on purpose. But I think while they may have thought this card to be a bit different in color. They didn't have the confidence to put it to the folks who could help, as those would be the same folks who would most likely not agree and devalue a labeled card and the return on that said card.
Of all the folks with the ability to really have a card checked well beyond a TPG opinion the Levy’s have those assets at their disposal. Between the other collector friends, auction houses and their own vast library of a collection, if this was a real new card they could have presented SGC or PSA with a stack of details from multiple sources and pioneered a new hobby discovery even.
Yet they made no attempt? Even from a pure point of cash return doing the above would certainly even perhaps raise the cards value prior to sale!
However they quietly list the card with Goodwin to mark down a balance owed and appear to have hid behind the label and let SGC and the auction house answer the question as to if it is in fact a new color variation of Brown Old Mill.
That just seems so very odd coming from such advanced collectors with vast resources at their fingertips.
This is the last I will chime in on this, but this is what many of us are wrestling with on this card.
Cheers,
John
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