520-card T206 set live auction in Buckingham, Pennsylvania

[ParisianJohn]

This is a great thread. I know Blaine quite well as he handled the auction of my mother's estate last year after she passed away. Blaine will talk your ear off, but at the same time, every single thing he says is interesting, so I love it. I live in New England now, but my wife and I are hoping to get a long weekend this spring, head down there for a few days, and include an auction with Blaine. He usually has some good oil paintings - though I prefer art on small pieces of cardboard.

It's a shame to see such a great T206 collection that someone really took great care of to be broken up and not passed down within the family, but I guess that's the way it goes. Either the family had no interest in it, or needed the money. It sure paid off for Ted, and I'm jealous I wasn't there to expand my modest collection!

[tedzan]

I was the very last person to cash out at this auction; and, while I was waiting for my wife to arrive to pick me up I had a nice conversation with Blaine.
He certainly is one cool guy....and, with a great sense of humor.

He noted that I won quite a number of Tobacco cards. I remarked that I was very pleased with the auction. And especially, these 10 cards.....I showed
him 10 of the 12 cards pictured here (minus the McGraw & Gandil, which I already had). I explained to Blaine that the Tobacco advertising backs (Sweet
Caporal 460, Factory #42) on these 10 cards are tough to find. Furthermore, finding all 10 cards (that I needed) in the same collection is virtually impos-
sible. I certainly was one very happy dude that frigid icy day.


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John....thanks for posting.


TED Z

[ullmandds]

beautiful cards, ted...congrats...so did ink transfer in storage...or are they all wet sheet transfers/bleed throughs?

[tedzan]

Originally Posted by ullmandds

beautiful cards, ted...congrats...so did ink transfer in storage...or are they all wet sheet transfers/bleed throughs?

I'm not sure I understand, but then there are times when I cannot figure if you are joshing or you are serious. Anyhow, I don't see
any evidence of "wst" on 11 of these cards.

The back of the Pfeffer card is a mystery to me....as it appears to have black printing under (or over) the red Sweet Caporal print.
I don't view this effect as a result of wst....since Sweet Cap backs were not printed with black ink. Perhaps, it was the result of a
black ink "prep-to-print" printer's test.


Besides you, others here have noted "wst's" on these cards. Therefore, I'm asking anyone here, check out these enlarged scans of
the cards, and tell me where you detect hints of wst ?


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Thanks,

TED Z

[ullmandds]

ted...what I'm referring to is...for ex...on the ford, devore, duffy fronts...I can see ink from the backs...and I'm wondering if this occurred during production or could have occurred from storage over the years?

[ullmandds]

also on the wheat, mcgraw, pfeiffer?

[Pat R]

I see them on all but the Crandall and Gandil the Hummel, Tannehill and Sheckard are
faint but the rest are quite pronounced.

[Jantz]

Pete

I did a lot of research on these 12 players a few years ago. If you search the archives for a thread I started named "A possible T206 sheet", I talked about how these 12 player's cards consistently show a wet sheet transfer on the front of their cards. I believe it occurred during production and I also believe these 12 players were on a sheet together.

I also own a few of these 12 player's card with Sweet Caporal 460-42 backs and all of mine have the same wet sheet transfer. I've seen too many over the years to think it happened from storage. This wet sheet transfer would have occurred on other cards and not just the factory 42s if that was the case/cause. I've never seen a McGraw SC factory 30 with this wet sheet transfer, yet almost all of his SC factory 42 cards have it. A few factory 42s do appear without the wet sheet transfer and this was probably because of the way the sheets were stacked. No transfer means that card was either on the bottom or top sheet depending on how the sheets were stacked during production.


Jantz

[tedzan]

Originally Posted by ullmandds

ted...what I'm referring to is...for ex...on the ford, devore, duffy fronts...I can see ink from the backs...and I'm wondering if this occurred during production or could have occurred from storage over the years?

Pete

If there are wst on these cards it was strictly due to printers stacking freshly printed sheets (before the ink had fully dried).

Whatever, I have a problem with you, and several guys here, saying they see wst on these cards. Yes, I understand that these subject's have been seen with wst.

However, I'm sorry guys....I just don't see any hints of wst on the fronts of these cards.

Perhaps, I've seen too many of these cards and they all have become a "blur", or maybe I'm going "blind"



TED Z

[kdixon]

Wow, congrats Ted...