Mission Accomplished.....Piedmont 150 Series

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Posted By: Ted Zanidakis

Brian W.

In the 1980's I put together a 521 card set (- Plank & Wagner). I was content
with this for a quite a while.

Then I sold it in 1997. In 2004 I picked up a large lot of T206's and I was on my
way to a 2nd "set" (520 cards this time). This one I "completed" last December.

But, call it an obsession (or certainly an addiction). As soon as I acquired these
520 cards, I then decided to undertake this Piedmont 150 Series challenge. Since
my theory is that the Piedmont's in this series were the very 1st T206's printed.
This is implicit in the Magie (error) card.

So, I broke up this 2nd set and now I am on a grander mission to attain all the
possible 518 cards that have Piedmont backs. And, this 518 card set I will pass
on to my Grandson Ronnie, who is just 20 years old.

Hopefully, Ronnie will continue collecting T206 sets (as a function of the different
backs) and, by the time he reaches my age, he will have acquired enough T206's
to have a "master" set. Time is what it takes to amass almost 7000 cards.

This will be one of my legacies to him.