Question about value of T206 card

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Posted By: Dave

George's collection sounds like it's awesome. when I was younger I used to run fantasy baseball leagues, and for a few years I had a set of twin brothers who joined my league. One day we got to talking about baseball memorabilia, and they told me I should come over to their place and check out their collection.
Needless to say it was the massive....I've never seen anything like it before. their whole house was filled with memorabilia from the 19th century to the present. the attic was filled with boxes of cards, and when I thought that was it, they took me to the basement. Almost every inch of the walls was covered with pictures, autographs, bats, balls, gloves,jerseys, hats, you name it....they collected all sports related items they could find it seemed. then they showed me the garage. you could not see to the back end of the garage because the boxes and cases of cards were stacked over 8 feet high. These guys still live somewhere in Ohio, and they used to own some bars and night clubs, one of them worked for the Minnesota twins for a while also...so others on this board may know them. Our local newspaper ran a story on them sometime back in the early 90's, and shortly after that story ran the attemtped break-ins and robberies started. they eventually had to move most of their stuff to a rented , secure location. Their was also an arson attempt that almost destroyed the contents of the "garage"...I just remember thinking that some people must be pretty sorry ass to do something like that. I wish I knew where those guys were today. (Hey Bruce if you and your brother read this forum by some chance , contact me or Mojo.)
Those of you who question the validity of Georges claims.....he could very well be telling the absolute truth when he talks about his collection. the brothers I knew spent their whole lives building a huge collection that still remains relatively unknown to the world.Just from knowing them for the limited time I did , I would reckon they don't use the internet, and have never liked price guides and grading companies otherwise some of their items would have surely surfaced by now. As for having multiple copies of T206 cards....my brother and I have at least 15 of each Cincinnati Reds player ( Ed Karger is the toughest in my experience), and almost the same of Pittsburgh ( no Honus Wagner...BOO!!, but Gibson has always been harder to find than the others). We also have at least 5-6 of each minor league player I'm pretty sure except the Hall of Famers. We are not retired and we are not rich; we spend about $500-$4,000 a month just on T206 cards and E90-1's, and T3's.
Just out of curiousity...is anyone on the board here reluctant to post about your collection because of the fear that crooks or thieves may find out about what you've got and attemtp to steal it. Just something my dad mentioned the other night when I told him about this forum. He jokingly said to be careful about what you post ...."there may be crooks reading those posts, then they can trace your name on the internet and who knows what they might be thinking."