OK T206 EXPERTS- How Many T206 survive today????

[wolf441]

Originally Posted by mrvster

Spinning off of the 3500 + T206 find and Rick Q....

how many T206 do you believe survive today???
my guess- 2 million +

has this poll been done before

anyway, I d love to hear thoughts......

Hey Johnny,

I think 2MM + is a good estimate. If you look at Frank's Monster Number thread (and I'm sure that some cards have moved between collections since some monster numbers were originally posted), there's about 40,000 T206's listed. And that's just a small subset of Net54 members who chose to participate in the thread...

[packs]

One person had amassed 1400 T206s in just over 3 years of distribution according to the other find that was posted last week.

This collection was said to be in its original state and was maintained and collected by the original owner, who was the consignor's grand father.

So that was one person. Multiply that by the millions of other people who smoked cigarettes over that period.

Even if just one million people had received 100 cards over three years of distribution, that's 100,000,000 cards. If only 5 percent survived today that accounts for 5,000,000 cards.

[ullmandds]

Originally Posted by packs

One person had amassed 1400 T206s in just over 3 years of distribution according to the other find that was posted last week.

This collection was said to be in its original state and was maintained and collected by the original owner, who was the consignor's grand father.

So that was one person. Multiply that by the millions of other people who smoked cigarettes over that period.

Even if just one million people had received 100 cards over three years of distribution, that's 100,000,000 cards. If only 5 percent survived today that accounts for 5,000,000 cards.

this seems like a reasonable estimate...but I'm guessing fewer that 5m survive today.

[Northviewcats]

After seeing all of T206s at Nationals I would estimate "billions and billions"

[mrvster]

i have been dreaming of populations of T206 for years....and to imagine a lot of my scraps are "one of a kinds" or "twins" out of literally millions of T206 cards.....or owning a few variations or rare backs relative to the total population is just mind blowing

makes me happy

[ullmandds]

maybe someone can convince the census bureau to include this question in future versions!

[mrvster]

OMG!Great idea