T200 Fatima Premiums

[FrankWakefield]

I had a Cleveland T200 premium. Sold it maybe 20 years ago.


The dimension was 21" by 13". They are big. That is the dimension of a piece of thick cardboard, roughly made, with a brown surface. Centered on it is a very thin photograph, that is quite large.

These premiums are fragile. The corners of that brown cardboard will break away with a bit of a bump. I'd think that if you come across one that looks perfect, then it has been refurbished, reconstructed or restored by a skilled document restorer. The photograph part is also fragile, and bits of that can easily break away.

Those framed versions above show the photo part fairly well, but the matting the framer used is covering what may well be a damaged.

The standing players are as big as your hand. And that "Fatima" logo that is in the bottom center of the little cards is not on the premiums.

I showed mine to maybe a dozen people, total. I had bought it maybe12 to 14 years before I sold it. None of those collectors had ever seen one in person. When someone first saw it they would quit talking, and just hold it and look at it for about 90 seconds. That was my initial reaction when I saw it. That 'card wow experience' for me was exceeded only by the time I went to a collector's home to visit, he immediately asked me how I was then he told me to go to the bathroom, wash my hands, then thoroughly dry them. I did that and returned to his den and sat at a table where he was. He then held out his Wagner T206 that I had heard of but had not ever seen... he laid it in my hand and allowed me to hold it. I had known him for a while by then, we had gone to a few ML games, and he had shown be bits of his collection several times. My point of this is that seeing a T200 premium for the first time is memorable.