What's your best tobacco-card find?

[atx840]

Originally Posted by ullmandds

drum backed t206 hofman...which a board member now owns...in 92' for $30.

That hurts

At least Solly is as free as he was in 92'...

[larrie804]

I sold most of the 1375 cards on consignment. The other half of the collection is now owned by the original collector's grandson and at this point he does not want to sell.

[r2678]

Around 1979 I was at a coin show and a Baltimore dealer sold me a collection he acquired. There were more than 300 different T206s including three Ty Cobbs, a complete set of the T201 double folders, a nice tin full of P2 pins, a 1914 world series ticket stub and a 1926 world series program. Money got tight in the 1990s and the T206s ended up with a Charlotte dealer, the T201 set was sold off and Paul Fusco and I made a trade involving the P2 pins and a Federal League silver pass. I kept the stub and program but haven't seen them in years. They may have been lost in one of my moves.

[Blunder19]

My 2 best finds:

About 5 years ago I bought a lot of 150 T206 cards for $2100 (about $14.50 each) off ebay. The seller was local to me (in NYC) I drove to the guys apartment where he literally had the cards in a shoebox. In the lot was a red hindu and 3 SL blank backs. They were not advertised on his ebay auction. Still have 2 of the Blank backs.

Then about 2 years ago I was searching the internet and found a pic of the chance ghost (which is my avatar on Net54 now). I was able to track down the card for sale from the picture on a small site where it would be tough for anyone to find.. although the price was good... the better story was finding a "true" t206 ghost for sale on a small dealers site.

[oldphil]

About 10 years ago I purchased 11 ungraded T205s from a fellow in Pa. The cards were not graded but looked very nice. I paid about $2100 for the cards and at the time I was very naive about trimming, miniscule wrinkles etc. I would never take this chance now. Sent the cards to PSA and got the following grades:
Baker 7
Collins (open) 6
Collins (closed) 6
Daubert 7
Donahue 8
Speaker 6
Bender 6
Huggins 4
Dougherty (white sock) 7
Walsh 5
Bresnahan (open) 5
This was the beginning of my love affair with the T205s. Still my favorite set.