I got to 520, then sold a few to get a Magie... Then two months later sold over 400 of them to get enough money to buy Lionel Carter's Eddie Plank in the April 2007 Mastro Auction. Still have that Plank, but my autographed T206 card collection now outnumbers my unsigned T206 collection by about 4 to 1.
The signed cards ruined my fascination for the unsigned ones. Once you hold a card that has actually been touched by the player, the ones that the player never touched simply don't possess the same magic.
I've made it back up to 300+ once since 2007, buying mostly raw lots. But I sold them all to make a run at the signed T206 Cobb in th September 2010 Imperial Sports auction. When that attempt failed, I decided to update our guest bathroom with the money rather than pour it back into unsigned T206 cards. I have never regretted that move.
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