Five questions about T212 Obak

[edjs]

Originally Posted by wonkaticket

Obaks are great cards!


1. Not that I'm aware of, I know some players are only found with say the tougher backs like "Just So" players like Kusel etc.


2. 150's are very tough I spent a lot of time and had to even buy a fellow collector out of his progress to finish the full 150 set. I would say they are equal to the 1909's if not a bit tougher in my experience.

3. Not sure....

4. I know of one of each set along with handful uncut panels and strips.

5. Not much new, but quite a bit is known already. I will say T212 hasn't been torn apart and broken down to the degrees of say T206. It could be done but to date I' haven't seen any real new info or thoughts on T212.

Here are my 4 Obak sets.

Glad to see an Obak thread...how could you go wrong talking about this great set.


Cheers,

John

John,

Thanks for the feedback. Perusing your sites, I wonder if I bought your old Mohler card, as it is from the Pollard Collection.

[wonkaticket]

Ed, you did Pollard had a few cards which weren't as nice as mine so I did sell a handful of the cards from the original collection. Pollard was such a hobby pioneer in terms of PCL/Minor league cards I felt the need to tip the hat to him with the pedigree on the slabs. Being an old school collector he would most likely be laughing at the name on the slab and ask me why I removed the cards from his sheets.

In fact Ed here is your Mohler card as it came from the original collection from the old Mylar sheets. Also you will see it in the pile below as they were removed and sent off for grading.




Cheers,

John

[trdcrdkid]

Mmmmm, I love me some Obaks. I'm green with envy at Wonkaticket's collection. I don't have nearly as many (maybe 70 different, plus six duplicates?), but they're all still raw.

[wonkaticket]

Man that binder looks nice...I miss those days! Good stuff.

[Leon]

here are a few more....

[Orioles1954]

T212-3 full uncut sheet.

[edjs]

Wow, you guys have some très cool cards there.

Orioles, are all the subjects (175) represented on the one sheet? That is amazing!

Leon, those are some great cards. Are they all going to be in the Heritage auction? I may have to add those to my tracking

John, thank you so much. Do you mind if I save a copy of those photos to show the Mohler history? Man, Mr. Pollard had some amazing cards. Do you remember why the Mohler came back graded "A"? It is such a nice card, and I really can't tell with it slabbed, but it doesn't really show any trimming, but I guess that is probably it.

Okay, there is the 1911 sheet, anyone with the 1909, 1910 (150), or 1910 (175). Fascinating to see. How about variations? I have read there a some between the 150 and 175 series. In post #4, Jeff O talks about three uncut sheet from the 1909 set, and that there was only one subject per sheet, so that would make the 1909 cards come out in equal number (therefore equal in scarcity). This 1911 sheet clearly shows that some cards where multi-printed on the same sheet. I would guess the same would be in the 1910 (175) sheets, since they are both 175 subjects. I would love to see how the 150 subjects where printed. This is some great stuff! Keep it coming!