Posted By:
bruce DorskindWe find your effort to be extremely admirable
T 207's are interesting because of the biographies. It has long been a mystery
why so many stars were excluded from the set and why so many players who
barely enjoyed a cup of coffee in the Major Leagues were included.
T 207's are exceptionally difficult to obtain in high grades. For example, PSA
has only issued 24 "8s" and 1 nine. Many cards in the set do not have an example
graded above 6. Our understanding is that one collector owns 95% of the 8's. We
have 8 different "7s" Our favorite is the card of Marsans- the first Cuban
to play in the Major League. In the PSA Set registry, the number one set is only 12% completed.
SGC has been extremely difficult on the T 207's. Of the 330 cards in their Population Report,
only 6% (19 cards) have been granted a grade of 60 or above and there is only 1 80
and a handful of 70's.
The sad story for us is when we began our career in the mid 1970's we worked
in Greenwich Village for Fairchild Publications. One day at lunch we took a walk
down Broadway to 9th Street. we wondered to an antique store that had a sign
that said Baseball Cards for sale. New to the hobby, we called our friend, the
legendary George Lyons. He told us it was worth every bit of $500 (more than a week's
salary in those days) to buy 100 different very nice looking "brown backs." which we
did. In 1986 we sold the cards to David Festberg at $50 each because were buying some
near mint 1880's type cards. The T-207's were great to look at. We regretted selling them
the day after we did so
T202s in PSA 8's are readily available. In fact there are several currently on E Bay.
Lot of good luck in your effort
Bruce Dorskind
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