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Posted By: Michael Peich

In order to respond to another thread tonight concerning Sweet Caporal backs, I got out the MJ Roop folder that houses my T-206 collection. I have 512 cards toward completing the set. In addition to the seven I need, and the Big 5/6, there are a couple of dozen that I want to upgrade to Vg or better. None of them is graded, and it makes looking at them in the album a most satisfying experience. I did buy a few that were graded, but, horror-of-horrors, I broke them free and slid them into the appropriate slot on the visually pleasing fifteen card page.

T-206 is the first vintage set I collected, and I still enjoy the beauty of the cards. There is also the tactile pleasure of holding a card that was new when my grand-parents were children--it's like reconnecting with the past, something that many of us enjoy doing. And, as a few folks have mentioned, by collecting raw cards, I don't have to worry about the space it takes to store slabbed cards. I do have many graded cards in other sets I collect, but I've always felt that looking at them in those little plastic cases was similar to viewing a corpse in a casket. Not so with my living T-206s.

Cheers, Mike