John Titus-Itus

[vintagechris]

Originally Posted by bbsports

The post you listed John is a big concern. It seems that certain players get hoarded & have now become overpriced like the Titus card because he is the only T206 player that has a moustache. Hey Kevin, the other cards you mention in your thread are either short prints or are from the elate 8 group. Titus does not fall in either of these groups. The concern here is that you can hoard any card & then it becomes overpriced? I don't think this is good for the hobby, only for the collectors that are hoarding them.

Funny thing is, I was reading an old SCD a few weeks ago, I think from the 70's and one of the writers was saying the same thing. He was worried about people hoarding and making it more difficult for others to get certain cards.

It's interesting reading those old pubs, some things never seem to change.

[t206fix]

Hoarding sucks! So whoever is hoarding those Red Hindus, Lenox's and P42's, please release them to me!

Or we can just let people collect whatever they want to collect...

[Leon]

Originally Posted by vintagechris

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It's interesting reading those old pubs, some things never seem to change.

It seems every time I post an old publication on the board we are reminded of this. Old sayings are old sayings for a reason too .

as for Titus...it's the mustache!!

[npa589]

I listed a bunch of cards this past week, so I employed my sister for a day to help scan the cards. Funny enough, she made a comment and asked a question about 1 card, and 1 card only out of the 260+ T206s she scanned, and it was the Titus. Her comment was: "This one just seems different." --- followed by "Was there a specific time frame when these were all produced, or was it over the course of 20 years?" I smiled when I asked for clarification as to the reason for her question, and her response was "The mustache..."