What's your reason for collecting T206

[brianp-beme]

Not only because of the nice artwork seen on the majority of cards in the set, but also because it is such a large set and the fact that they are incredibly unavoidable when searching for Pre-WW2 cards...you just bump into them all the time. Sooner or later you end up buying some.

Brian

[bbcard1]

Lots of reasons.

The art is very good and is varied.

The sets is very large and is comprised of virtually all of the best players of the deadball era.

It is attainable but not too attainable. Even though I am down to about 50, I have a decent chance of picking up a couple I need every week or two.

I see it as my lifetime set. I hope to complete it in p-f this year, with the O'Hara variation (along with the big 4, of course) being the only real obstacle, provided my cashflow holds out. I intend to spend the rest of my life upgrading it as the opportunity presents itself starting with the worst, but occasionally buying lots of cards and using the upgrading lots and selling or trading the dupes. It is what I am concentrating on this year.

I have a low grade Delong set on deck along with a high grade 1961 Topps.

[Rob D.]

Never got to sit at the "cool" lunch table in high school.

[HRBAKER]

Really collect them only tangentially as an A's team set collector and a HOF type collector. Sold many of the HOfers off as I migrated to more obscure issues over time.

Rob, the Chess Club will do it to you everytime!

[Cardboard Junkie]

The T206s, 34 goudeys, 52Topps, 51Bowmans, 72Topps, oops thats 5 Oh yeah and I have a nice HOF set going of all diff types, none the same issue, oh yeah and cabinet cards and I forgot to mention my regional issues and................oh forget it!

But the t206s have me right now, it's like once you hook a Billfish everything else is "bait" The artwork, the legends, the challenge, the discoveries. The blood sweat and tears, the delights the disasters.

[iwantitiwinit]

Simply cause I like'em.

[Ronnie73]

I collect them mostly for the interesting fact that you never really know when your set is complete. Theres so many ways to collect them. I started collecting Piedmont factory 42's only and then got my first Tolstoi and started buying them, then there were the Cycles and wanted more of them and you gotta love the EPDG's and before I knew it, I figured i'd go after all the front/back combos.

Orions Father, I regret missing out on your Pink Hal Chase EPDG but I was into the Piedmont 42's at the time and was lucky enough to make a deal with you for your Blue Portrait Hal Chase factory 42 and its still one of my favorite T206's out of the many 100's I have. Thank you.

[sandmountainslim]

I like them for the history of the deadball era and for the history of the cards themselves. Bought a few '33 Goudey cards and they just don't do anything for me but I love the tobacco issues. Old Judge would be something I could completely dig but I can't afford them being a single dad.

[Bicem]

Good question, and one that I have always wondered myself.

Nice artwork sure, but has nothing on a set like T3.

Affordable yes, but putting together a complete set is very costly. And also a futile effort since the majority of us won't be able to ever afford to truly complete it with the Wagner card.

Attainable of course, but the fact that you see them everywhere and everyone collects them is actually a big reason why I don't collect them. To me, the much more interesting things are the things that you don't see every day.

Back variations are cool, but a card's charm to me has always been much more about the front. A card that you have to turn over to truly appreciate doesn't really appeal to me personally.

Just my honest thoughts, and don't get me wrong, I can definitely appreciate the importance of t206's!

[ethicsprof]

At least you had a lunch table, ole buddy.
My high school in the late 60's tried to be liberal and innovative and provided only vending machines and picnic tables. Only way to be cool was to smoke in the assigned area. I missed out on that.

I collected the T206s because of their aesthetics. Even after taming the Monster a few years back, I couldn't part with those beauties and still have every single one. I've been a type collector since and have to admit that i've acquired some beauties that have surpassed the T206s but the T206s will always be 'my first love'---in the card collecting arena!!
all the best,
barry

[David W]

I don't really collect them, but have accumulated 75 or so just because they are always available in beater grade cheap. They were also the first pre war cards I ever bought.

It's also a pre war set that anyone with a little patience can get 95% complete over a few years without going bankrupt.

[kmac32]

I don't collect them