1976 clearance sale of T205 and T206

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In the same issue of Sports Collectors Digest where Bill Mastro was selling a T206 set minus Wagner, Plank, and Magie (9/15/76), another guy named Max F. Brunswick had a full-page ad selling individual T205s and T206s. He was selling them by condition -- EX for $1.50, VG for $1.25, GD for $1.00, FR for 50 cents, subtract 50 cents for creases or scratches, add 50 cents for minor leaguers. Hall of Famers were twice the price of a common of the same grade; I don't know if top-tier HOFers like Cobb, Young, WaJo or Matty would have been more, because he didn't have any of those for sale. Poor Elmer Flick, who had been in the HOF since 1963, was treated as a common, as was Bobby Wallace. But Hal Chase was treated as a HOFer (much as he is today), as was Nap Rucker! Brunswick makes no mention of backs and apparently didn't care about them, but I have to think that in all these cards there were probably a few tougher backs.