T206 Mullaney - EPDG / Piedmont / Brown Old Mill

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Posted By: T E

Hi guys, this card was my introduction to this board a few years ago.

In about 1973 or 1972, that time frame, I walked into a nostalgia shop (must have been one of the first of its kind) on Ascan Avenue in Forest Hills, Queens called Little Nemo's. The owner had a shoebox with about 180 T206s in it. He sold them to me for the lofty sum of $15. This card was one of them.

Fast forward about 8 years, now I am living alone in Manhattan. My apartment was burglarized. I had my t206s in a case, in three stacks. The crooks took two of the stacks, left the third. This card was in the stack they left.

I often gazed at this card wondering who that ghost image was. I had heard that error cards were worthless, so I didn't pursue it. I am not a t206 collector, and I started selling off my cards on ebay a couple of years ago under my ID of easthamptonauctions (my ID was hoofaway back then)

Then about two years ago Leland's auctioned off a card with a Piedmont double overstrike. It went for maybe $1500, that neighborhood. I thought, well, damn, I got something that sure beats that! I was directed to this board from the ebay Sports Mem. board. I posted an image of it and quite a wonderful thread grew out of it.

Today I just came here to annouce on the ebay sell board that I am selling the few remaining cards, all except this one, the ones I had kept for sentimental reason, Cobb, Lajoie, etc, when I saw this thread. There's my guy!

Note, by the way, the left edge is miscut slightly. I am finally going to send this guy out to have him authenticated by PSA, they have a $60 two day plan, and then I guess I'll offer him for sale. I am going to ask a ridiculous price, so he probably won't sell, which is fine with me, some memories are worth keeping.