e107 vs t206

[shammus]

There was one time when I had 3/4ths of the set complete. I've always had challenges trying to remain focused on a project long enough to complete it. There's so many cards in so many other sets that I really like and it was difficult for me to have several hundred tied up into each common and then anywhere from 4 to 15k tied up into each Hofer.

What's that? You don't believe I had 3/4ths of the set complete?? Oh, my fault, should have added that it was a Type 2 set I was going for....

[e107collector]

Brian,

How close did you come to completing the Type 2 set? In your opinion, which type 2 is the toughest? The Delehanty?

Tony

[sb1]

Delehanty can't be that hard, I have one right here

(on the right)

Notice the text difference at the bottom.

[shammus]

Hey Tony! Hope you are well....

I had 6 of the 8 cards, although I was able to acquire a 7th, Tenney, at a later date. Still have that one actually.

I'd say the toughest would be Seybold. I've never been able to confirm that a Type 2 Seybold even exists. All the others I've seen anywhere from 2 to 5 examples of including Tenney and Waddell, which was the most recent addition to the Type 2 checklist a few years ago. The Delehanty was far and away the most expensive but not the toughest. Each time I've seen a Type 2 Delehanty up for auction it goes between 12-15k. Lajoie is the Type 2 I've seen the most of to date.

I won Chris Sullivan's Type 2 Keeler a few weeks back from Legendary. First time in years that I think I've owned an e107 HOFer...

[sb1]

I never had a Seybold either, I only had 5 different back when I accumulated them.

[shammus]

I went as far as to touch base with a few of the longtime collectors not on Net 54 to see if they had a Seybold or could confirm it's existance. In some cases, I had to have a buddy of mine from here contact someone they knew to tell me "yes" or "no". Funny enough, I was able to contact Keith Olbermann once, through a good hobby friend of mine who knew Keith and was kind enough to be willing to reach out to him on my behalf. Turns out, he didn't have one either...heh!

[e107collector]

If you or Scott can't confirm one, and Chris Sullivan didn't obtain one, maybe the Seybold doesn't exist?

Tony

[sb1]

Most of the E107 collectors in the early days did not care, The type 2 just filled a hole.. for example Chris only had 1-2 overprint backs, I had 39, he didn't chase them and I just happened to find a few groups with a lot of them. My Type 2 Delehanty and Keeler were both part of a guys E107 set, he could have cared less about the thick gray stock.

Which brings us to the what are they part of the story, which I will save my thoughts for another thread.

[e107collector]

Scott,

On your Type 2 Delehanty, I'm pretty sure it has the "overprint" back, correct? Is the back blank, or does it also have the 1 of 150 text as well, along with the overprint?

It seems like some of your Type 2's can be classified as a type 3.

Tony