What's your best tobacco-card find?

[T206Collector]

When I first started collecting signed T206s, someone on Net54 suggested that my cards may have originated from the Jeff Morey collection. After a little research, I was able to track down Morey and interview him about his decades of autograph collecting. The audio from that interview is on my website, for those who are interested.

During our discussions, Morey told me that he had kept a few of his signed tobacco cards because Mastro didn't seem to want them at the time of his major sale about six years prior. He had 18 signed T206s and T205s which he sold me, including the best condition autographed T206 card I've ever seen:

[steve B]

Just before I joined I helped go through a collection from an estate. Wide range of stuff, and enough good stuff that I couldn't afford it. Got them set up with an auction after about 3 days of sorting so I'd know what was there.

I asked for a small bag that contained what seemed at a glance to be a small collection of T nonsports, mostly comon or worn, plus a few other things.

To my surprise the bag also included some dusty/dirty T205s and T206s and a few caramels. Plus about a half set of T49s including one previously unlisted. The baseball cards all had some surface dirt, but were really nice otherwise.

Later they found more, and I bought the rest of the T49 set at the auction. Paid a bit much I thought, but I figured I owed them a bit. (Still do) The other two uncataloged T49s were in the second batch. So the set I ended up with is probably the only complete set.

That was the find that brought me here and got me back into cards after a bout 5 years of being mostly inactive, only a few packs each year.

Steve B

Steve B