Questions for autograph collectors

[T206Collector]

It's all about the presentation for me. I suspect most people would rather have this SGC/JSA encapsulated Wheat from the Jeff Morey collection.


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But this glued-to-a-file-card Wheat from the "Barefoot" Post collection has so much life and personality that make it really unmatchable. In the late 1960s, Post sent T206 cards glued to file cards to old ballplayers and asked for their autographs on the composite. Most signed the file card beneath the T206 card, a few signed the T206 card and the file card -- only Wheat signed both with the same stroke of the pen! Was he being funny? Earnest? A little bit of both? Regardless, signing this way requires the viewer to follow the pen strokes from left to right, noticing the little glitches when the pen hit the bump of the tobacco card, and then down again off the right side and back to the file card. Impossible just to flip by it when you see it. The holder takes more time with it than a standard card with autograph -- every time.



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I'd rather have.... BOTH! And so I do.
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