Durham, NC T206 find

[CardTarget]

I have been out of the hobby for several years now, with my T206 set about halfway complete sitting in a closet. But I still use my cardtarget.com email address for various things. A golf buddy of mine noticed my email address and mentioned a few years ago that he had some T206s that he bought many years ago and someday he'd show me. This week he decided he was ready to sell and actually showed me. Wow!

In 1991 a guy he worked with told him his grandfather was trying to sell his old baseball cards. He met him literally in his grandfather's barn where he purchased an old tin full of T206 cards. He put them in a binder and they've been on his shelf ever since. So I'm excited to bring them into the light of day for the first time. The images below are the crème of the crop, but there are about 100 additional commons and low level HOFers too. A few have pencil writing on the back and one has what appears to be an "S. S." stamp?

They are about 85% Piedmont 150 backs, 10% Piedmont 350 backs, and 5% Old Mill backs. All of them "Factory 25, 24 Dist Va".

Also included were one T210 (Frank Taxis, Charlotte) and one T212 Recruit (Bert Daniels).

So I've been tasked with selling these... I will post pictures of all of the commons in the BST board soon. But if anyone is interested in keeping the collection together for any reason before I sell it all piecemeal, LMK. I know it's pretty rare to come across a collection like this that hasn't ever seen the hobby and likely hasn't changed at all in 70+ years. Thanks all!

[Bamacollection]

[sycks22]

I love hearing about the big finds every year

[Leon]

I will increase your PM limit. Good luck. That's very cool....

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[GasHouseGang]

Is it April 1st already?!

Just kidding. Amazing find of some great survivors.

[brianp-beme]

Nice re-discovery of some great looking T206 cards. With the stains on the back bottom of the ones shown it appears they may have been mounted in a scrapbook (with photo corners perhaps?). It would certainly account for their fresh appearance. Do the others also have similar stains? And any additional background about the cards that you can provide?

Brian