Best and Worst Thread

[joeadcock]

I would add Lections for set not standing the test of time.

[irishdenny]

Worst - Mello Mints... & I also agree with the the choice of the E107's.

Best - Only because of the amount that were produced "T206's"

Most Excellent Thread idea!!!

[ValKehl]

Best - M116
Worst - T200 & T222

[veloce]

The coupon era Zeenut cards 1913-1920 have to be one of the worst, and the collectors the most forgiving. I have always been impressed how bidding wars will get started over a card that looks like it has been reconstructed after going through the washer and dryer.

Nicest: T206. Always amazes me how nice the colors and surfaces are on some of the cards out there.

[Rich Klein]

Best: T206

Worst: T231 Fan -- how many copies are known now (have we even gotten to 5)

[Bridwell]

Bigger cards did not survive in top condition. The corners are usually bent. This includes E101 and E102, Zeenuts, Tip Top Bread, and other issues not yet mentioned. Some of these issues have virtually no NMT cards surviving!

The T206-size cards stack pretty well and are smaller. T206's have a nice laminated finish on the fronts that has held up amazingly well for 100 years. T207's, in comparison, have a laminate glaze finish that cracks and crazes.

[ValKehl]

Another "worst" is the T214 Victory Tobacco set. Of the combined total of 63 cards in the PSA & SGC pop reports, 55 are graded lower than VG.
Val

[teetwoohsix]

Originally Posted by Rich Klein

Best: T206

Worst: T231 Fan -- how many copies are known now (have we even gotten to 5)

I'll go with what Rich said......

[FrankWakefield]

I'm thinking that there weren't that many T231's in the first place; so it's not like some disproportionate number of them have been destroyed. I don't think they were more likely to be lost to us than other cards.