Best t206 deals

[wazoo]

I'm pretty sure we've had a thread like this before, but I'm going to start it up again anyways. I would like to see the best deals you've gotten for cards compared to their actual values.

Let me start:

I paid only $90 each for my Ed Cicotte and Joe Doyle raw.

[bbcard1]

Will probably always be a little over 100 low grade T206s including minor hall of famers and southern leaguers for $100.

[bunst]

Paid $11 for a Jiggs Donohue that had amazing eye appeal but was advertised as trimmed. After the sale I looked at it closer and didn't see the trim. Sent it in to SGC and it came back NM 84.

[Rob D.]

Got this brown Lenox at auction for far, far less than what I expected to pay. Easily my best T206 purchase.

[cfc1909]

I wouldn't say this was my best deal but it is my most recent best deal. This is probably in the top 3 in toughest brown Hindu's. I was shocked at the hammer. 25% of what I expected.

[cdn_collector]

Originally Posted by cfc1909

I wouldn't say this was my best deal but it is my most recent best deal. This is probably in the top 3 in toughest brown Hindu's. I was shocked at the hammer. 25% of what I expected.

The hammer on that one surprised me too. I actually considered bidding on that card to start a second Gibson run, but my funds were tied up in not winning the Mello-Mint instead. Too bad about the chipping in the bottom right corner, but great card still.

Regards,

Richard.

[Eric72]

Twenty bucks for this one. I am still tickled pink.



Best,

Eric

[Sean]

Originally Posted by Rob D.

Got this brown Lenox at auction for far, far less than what I expected to pay. Easily my best T206 purchase.

Was this auction in 2004? I think this was the one where the auction house described the back as a Lenox, but not as a Brown?

[Rob D.]

Originally Posted by Sean

Was this auction in 2004? I think this was the one where the auction house described the back as a Lenox, but not as a Brown?

No.

[Sean]

Originally Posted by Rob D.

No.

Then I'm probably confusing it with another half-remembered auction.

[atx840]

This went for less then half of what I expected....not the best deal but one of my favourites.

[Sean]

I bought this one in 2008. I needed the player and the Piedmont back. I think I paid about $35 for it on ebay. I didn't realize it was a 42 until it arrived. The seller must not have noticed either.

[Sean]

Similarly, I've had two board members tell me how they each bought what they thought was a Snodgrass, only to find that they had bought a Nodgrass instead. I'll let them tell the rest if they so choose.

[pete zouras]

Was in a find at the local card shop that eventually found its way to me to sell on ebay. I was very happy to part with $225 for it in a deal brokered with my consignor.

[marcdelpercio]

I picked this up on eBay for $1.25 a couple of years ago. It was listed as a reprint. It was ungraded at the time, of course. I asked the seller if he had any other similar "reprints" for sale and, unfortunately he did not.

[leaflover]

I bought this at the SMR listed price for a PSA 5.(awhile back)
PSA has yet to grade a Harry Hinchman with a EPDG back.
Maybe I'll have it reholdered this year at the National.

[atx840]

Great card Rob.

Surprisingly they still slip by...within the last year a brown Lenox sold at a major house without the color designation...missing that one hurt

[Blunder19]

one of my best was back in 2009... I bought a group of about 150 T206s.. purchased the lot for $2100. In the lot were 3 blank back Slers and 1 Red Hindu.

[robw1959]

Easily my best deal was winning one-hundred T206 cards for $15. Lower grade for sure, but a great deal, even at the time, which was in 1976. Frank Nagy auction.