List your top 5 favorite looking T206 portraits

[iwantitiwinit]

List your top 5 favorite looking T206 portraits. Personally I like many of the lighter green backgrounds best.

5. Elberfeld
4. Evers
3. W. Johnson
2. Chesbro
1. Magee

[Phillies*phan]

5. Downs
4. Lajoie
3. Mathewson
2. H. Moran
1. Lobert

[refz]

5) Patsy Dougherty
4) Hal Chase Pink Portrait
3) Joe Tinker
2) Ty Cobb Red Portrait
1) Walter Johnson

[Tobacco&Gum]

I haven't seen all of them yet, but of the ones I have seen....

5- James Westlake
4- Lou Fiene (looks like a HS friend of mine lol)
3- Chase (blue)
2-Lajoie
1-Elberfeld

[CobbSpikedMe]

1. Ty Cobb red background
2. Eddie Plank
3. Walter Johnson
4. Patsy Dougherty
5. Ed Walsh

[usernamealreadytaken]

Who couldn't love this one . . .

But seriously, I agree with many listed already but would add Matty McIntyre.

[atx840]

Rucker
Atz
Bradley
Chase (blue)
Plank

Let's see some cards!

[3-2-count]

In no specific order since it would be to tough to decide:

L. Lajoie
J. Tinker
E. Walsh
W. Johnson
A. Joss

[pgellis]

1. Hal Chase, Pink
2. Willie Keeler
3. Jack Chesbro
4. Chief Bender
5. Eddie Collins

[mrvster]

1 wagner
2 plank
3 cobb green
4 bender
5 magee

[e107collector]

1. Wagner
2. Cobb green
3. Plank
4. Lajoie/Mordecai (toss up)
5. Walter Johnson/Mathewson (toss up)

Tony

[T206Collector]

Matty
WaJo
Cobb Green
Chase Pink
Tinker

[E93]

Wagner
Cobb/red
Matty
Plank
McGraw

JimB

[Tom S.]

1. W. Johnson
2. E. Walsh
3. J. Tinker
4. S. Shaughnessy
5. P. Dougherty

[Runscott]

Some definitely stand out. Tough to name just five, but...

Young
Green Cobb
Griffith
Waddell
Johnson

[Tyler]

1. Walter Johnson
2. Chase (Pink)
3. Cobb (Green)
4. Matty
5. Walsh

This is the answer...I said so.

[jp1216]

I just need to figure out a way to get my 6 yo son to not smile and flip up his collar for 1st grade pictures...

Lobert
Downs
Cobb Green
W. Johnson
Tinker

[Piratedogcardshows]

No one else said my favorite portrait pose

Dutch Revelle
Perry Lipe
Ty Cobb Green
Ed Walsh
Joe Tinker

[3-2-count]

Originally Posted by atx840

Let's see some cards!

Here you go Chris. My 5 choices below.

[AndyG09]

Tony,

I know you could care less about the number on the flip, but I think your whole collection would qualify for that SGC bump! Hope all is well with you!

My five in no order:

McIntyre
Lobert
Joss
Dougherty
Rucker

Best,

Andy

[Boomer]

1. Chance
2. Johnson
3. Tinker
4. Lajoie
5. Joss

[3-2-count]

Thank you Andy. I appreciate that!!

[GregMitch34]

Most underrated so far:

Wiltse
Bresnahan
Revelle
Kling

[Gradedcardman]

5. Lajoie
4. Johnson
3. Plank
2. Magee
1 .Bradley

[g_vezina_c55]

1 wagner
2 plank
3 mcintyre pink background
4 lajoie
5 magie

[SetBuilder]

1. Walter Johnson
2. Shag Shaughnessy
3. John Titus
4. George Manion
5. Matty McIntyre

[HRBAKER]

[Matthew H]

1 Honus Wagner
2 Eddid Plank
3 Magie (not Magee, that thing is stupid ugly)
3 Cobb Green
3 Wajo

[refz]

I am happy to see Dougherty get some love in this thread. I figured every other post would be Wagner plank green Cobb Marty Johnson in that order

[mrvster]

That was Great


Keith O. is the man when it comes to t206....I love when they gave him a pose

[David R]

1. Walter Johnson
2. Mathewson
3. Cobb Green
4. Chase Pink
5. Joe Tinker

[Anthony S.]

I'm colorblind (I really shouldn't be allowed to dress myself), but I seem to lean towards shades of green so the Ed Walsh and Bender Portrait have always appealed. Beyond that Johnson, even if he weren't a HOF, is a great looking card. And Tinker for his haircut. What the hell was he thinking?

[Pat R]

For me the portraits are my least favorite of the poses, but my top five
would be.

1 Weimer
2 Rucker
3 Dessau
4 Herzog
5 Chase (blue)

[Tobacco&Gum]

Originally Posted by 3-2-count

That is a cool one! Joss' hair looks like he was on that Seinfeld episode when the "low flow shower heads" were installed in the building.

[CobbSpikedMe]

Originally Posted by refz

I am happy to see Dougherty get some love in this thread. I figured every other post would be Wagner plank green Cobb Marty Johnson in that order

I am happy to see so many pick Dougherty as well. I just love the background color on that one.

AndyH

[teetwoohsix]

I have to agree with everyone else's picks.....because I can't pick just 5

Along with a certain strange attraction to the 150 series cards that I seem to have, I have the same for most all of the portrait T206's. The artwork on some of these cards, to me at least, is mind blowing for the era. Here are some that I love- and there are many I love but do not have. Also, beautiful cards Tony, you have great taste !!!

Sincerely, Clayton

[Touch'EmAll]

#1 Cy Young - great green color, very nice picture image

#2 Walter Johnson - yellow background ok, not the best, quality picture image

#3 Cobb - red or green, bummer the same image on both, average image


Honus Wagner - love the orange background, great image, but dreamer if ever able to obtain one, so kinda doesn't count

[wazoo]

5. Mathewson
4. Cobb (Green)
3. Chase (Pink)
2. Lajoie
1. Parent

These are only the ones off the top of my head. I believe all the portraits are unique and special.

[darwinbulldog]

1. Rucker
2. Walsh
3. Dougherty
4. Johnson
5. Chase, pink

[CMIZ5290]

There is nothing like a red cobb portrait when it has that blazing color, with bright white borders.....Hal Case Pink gets a close second, just so hard to find in high grade!!

[CMIZ5290]

Backstroke- You are not quite correct on the images being the same. They are in fact different.....Hope someone can post scans to show the differences.

[Runscott]

Originally Posted by CMIZ5290

Backstroke- You are not quite correct on the images being the same. They are in fact different.....Hope someone can post scans to show the differences.

The red Cobb/green Cobb is a good example of just how much difference there is among the T206 portraits (as is the pink Chase/blue Chase). You might prefer the 'artwork' done to create portraits like the red Cobb, Devlin, Merkle, blue Chase or Mathewson, but they weren't created by the same artists as the green Cobb, Johnson, Young, Evers, Brown, Dougherty, pink Chase. To me, the difference in style/technique is so clear that you could go through all the portraits and drop most of them in buckets, by artist(s).

The fact that most of them were made from photos by Horner makes no difference - it's obvious that multiple artists transformed the photos into lithographs.

[GregMitch34]

And, by and large, the star players were given to the best artists (not always, though).

[Runscott]

Originally Posted by GregMitch34

And, by and large, the star players were given to the best artists (not always, though).

A back-burner project has been to drop each T206 in an artist 'bucket', then check the results. Some of it is personal preference, as indicated by the board split on the green vs red Cobb, but what you said makes sense.