New Addition to the Scrap family Circus

[usernamealreadytaken]

What a piece of scrap!

Who knew this phrase would someday be a compliment . . .

[drazz5]

anyone care to inform me of what exactly a "scrap" card is?

[Sean]

A scrap card is a card that, perhaps due to a printing flaw, was intended to be thrown away rather than distributed. They were taken home by the printers, who cut them by hand and gave them to their kids.
In the T206 set, all Brown Old Mill and all Blank backs are scrap. Also, many of the cards that are missing colors are scrap, including (I believe) a Wagner and two Planks.
Johhny has made a career of collecting such cards, and can explain this better than I can.
If you are interested, go to ebay and type in "T206 yellow." Dan McKee (a board member) has a huge set of missing color scraps that you can look at. Also, at T206Resource.Com there is a good article by Scott Forrest (another board member) on this subject.

[AndyG09]

The ringmaster strikes again! A fine addition to the circus!

Best,

Andy

[drazz5]

Originally Posted by Sean

A scrap card is a card that, perhaps due to a printing flaw, was intended to be thrown away rather than distributed. They were taken home by the printers, who cut them by hand and gave them to their kids.
In the T206 set, all Brown Old Mill and all Blank backs are scrap. Also, many of the cards that are missing colors are scrap, including (I believe) a Wagner and two Planks.
Johhny has made a career of collecting such cards, and can explain this better than I can.
If you are interested, go to ebay and type in "T206 error." Dan McKee (a board member) has a huge set of missing color scraps that you can look at. Also, at T206Resource.Com there is a good article by Scott Forrest (another board member) on this subject.

Awesome! thanks ill have to look into it

[mrvster]

OMG! I posted this morning half asleep! Your Matty Proof is one of my all time fav cards(next to your multi strike!)....I don't believe your being "bias" to your cards, THEY ARE INSANE! and deserve the high ranking on my SCRAPS list...I was literally half asleep when I typed that..I LOVE THE MATTY PROOF..When I was driving to work, I thought I had the Matty down as 3rd on my list sorry my friend, that card has a "life" of it's own.......besides Collins and Wags strip, it's the only other HOFER proof that I know of.....btw....WHERE did the remaining 80 or so other proofs go???? I may start a thread about this.....I have been pondering this for years....I know collectors sucked them up in the 70's, but how come very few have surfaced????hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.....things that make you go hmmmmmmmm......

I will think about rankings/scraps some more(this is so neat to me)...

Daniel, YOU will love scraps....they are like "snowflakes" and many are unique unto themselves, extremely rare and ....even the similar ones are different than each other.....email me whenever you want....i'll show you my "circus" as Andy G coined it



Jantz....Chance is hanging out with Starr....call me my friend.....

[mrvster]

I feel "scrap drunk" LOL

I just looked on the T206RESOURCE.com

AND YES! Sean....#19 is the WAGNER GHOSTED scrap....1000 % scrap....1000 % ghosted....I can not figure out the upside down player tho....I know Tim Cathy, Chris Browne Erick Summers are some of the TOP guys that could decipher the uppy ghost on that WAGNER beauty that I dream of......

[sb1]

When the owner of the Wagner scrap purchased it I examined it and compared it to his set and finally found the player it matched(upside down of course). And of course now the player has eluded me. The ghost is easier to see in person. Next time I meet up with him I'll have to take another look.

[Leon]

Originally Posted by drazz5

anyone care to inform me of what exactly a "scrap" card is?

Congrats Johnny!! Love your enthusiasm.....

Drazz- Here is a thread and if you check out post 42 you will see an amazing recreation of a scrap T206....

http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=181116

[Sean]

Originally Posted by Leon

Congrats Johnny!! Love your enthusiasm.....

Drazz- Here is a thread and if you check out post 42 you will see an amazing recreation of a scrap T206....

http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=181116

Leon's card is the ultimate "scrap." Here are a couple that I own:

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Only the card on the left is a scrap;

[Sean]

One more:

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[mrvster]

I can't get enough of those.....owning that Plank must be INSANE! I want the Wagner ghost/scrap sooooooooooo bad....but I'd take the Wagner strip

[ullmandds]

there was a small window of time maybe 8-10 yrs ago when the wagner strip could be had for a "Reasonable" sum...that window has long been locked shut!!!

[e107collector]

Originally Posted by mrvster

I can't get enough of those.....owning that Plank must be INSANE! I want the Wagner ghost/scrap sooooooooooo bad....but I'd take the Wagner strip

Johnny,

Do you have a pic of the Wagner ghost scrap? I don't ever recall seeing a pic of that card.

Great scrap addition by the way!

Tony