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So I've been thinking about creating a shirt that lets people know that you are a person who is knowledgable about old baseball cards.
Basically advertising "Ask me about your OLD baseball cards"... in the hopes that some elderly gentleman will say "Sonny, I collected tobaccy cards when I was a wee pup and I've still got them all just collecting dust... come up to my attic". I know it's a dream, but it's fun to think about. I recently saw the boyhood collection of a friend which entailed full sets of 52-58 topps, 50s bowman, red man, double play, etc and a ton of other great looking cards that he has had for 50+ years. Amazing stuff. When I told him I'd give him $20,000 for it right now and I bet it's worth closer to $50,000 if he sold it through the right people he didn't believe me. It's probably as close to a "find" as I'll ever get. Anyway, does anyone have any ideas for what a shirt could look like? And would you want one? Perhaps Leon could use it as the next prize shirt once the current Net54 shirts are gone. |
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It is getting pretty unlikely there are more than a handful of living T206 collectors...maybe a couple, but not much more. If you were 9 in 1909, you would be 103 or so now. You would probably be a man and there are relatively few of us who make it that far down the road. I have seen one tobacco card collection obtained in childhood. That was by an 80+ year old around 1984. Two Cobbs...pretty cool overall. I have also appraised a collection for a museum, which was a lot of fun.
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If you were 9 in 1909 you would be 111 going on 112. Don't count on it.
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A collector didn't need to be alive in 1909 to have collected T206's.
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Math. Dang I do hate math barrysloate.You are right of course as I did not factor in the 9 years.
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I got my 1100 t205's and t206's in ND in 1971-2 from a guy who collected them as a kid in NYC. He was very happy to have found someone who was interested in them!
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Maybe the t-shirt would read something like this?
Honk if you have seen this man?
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I have counted the stitches on a baseball more than once.[/B] My PM box might be full. Email: jcfowler6@zoominternet.net Want list: Prewar Pirates items 1909 Pirates BF2 Wagner Cracker Jack Wagner and Clarke Love the hobby. |
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My grandfather is 98 and when anything about baseball is mentioned he talks about his older brothers having T206 along with him having them after they were done saving them. Unfortunatly the cards are no longer around but I guess he would be considered a living T206 collector having saved his brothers.
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