T206 Sacrifice by Fire

[egri]

It's your card, and your prerogative to do what you want with it. I don't know if I'd burn it if I was in your position, if I really wanted to do harm to a T206, I'd much rather take a few total beaters and play the game where you flip them against a wall and keep the ones your card lands on top of.

[sycks22]

I agree, give them to some kids. It'll be the one thing they'll own that's not on a screen.

[Leon]

I am being devil's advocate but if you can sacfrifice one, very common beater, and get some good out of it, then why not? Maybe you could measure the heat it puts out so we can know the intrinsic value of a card (assuming it's all there). Or maybe analyze the way the paper burns compared to something else. If it's one card, and a thousand people watch it and we get some good from it, I don't think it's the worst thing. Of course everyone else has very good points too. I am almost always for the best preservation of relics, otherwise.

[tschock]

Originally Posted by Leon

Or maybe analyze the way the paper burns compared to something else.

Exactly! Burn an original and burn a fake! Measure the smoke that comes of and check the color. That way we will have another way to test if something is fake or real. So if you can't tell if the card is real or fake in other ways, you can always burn it and... uh... hang on... maybe I haven't quite thought this through...

[toppcat]

Originally Posted by Leon

Maybe you could measure the heat it puts out so we can know the intrinsic value of a card (assuming it's all there).

How Sir Walter Raleigh-esque Leon!

[Brian Weisner]

Its your property, so I could care less what you do with it...

Be well Brian

[Bestdj777]

Even a beater has some monetary value to it. If you don't care about losing that money, it is your prerogative. But, I'd think it would be a better idea if you either gave the card to some kid or sold it and gave the money away if you really don't want it in your collection anymore and don't care about the money. It survived 100+ years, and there is something special about that.

[egri]

Just had an idea: for the cost of a few good T206s you can buy a crapton of '80s junk wax, and have a good size bonfire. There may nor may not be too many T206s, but there's definitely too much from the junk wax days lying around.

[ullmandds]

burn out the day...burn out the t206!!

[EvilKing00]

im not a t206 collector, but im sure you giving it to someone or to a kid would be a better idea. history shouldn't be destroyed imo.

[T206Collector]

A related thought was to hold a T206 captive and threaten to burn it unless someone bought it from me for $25. Not saying these are good thoughts, necessarily, but I got to thinking what the attitude of the forum would be about it, which is why I started the poll.

I assume that most people would say preserve the relic as a historical artifact, and that we are just holding them for the next generation of collectors.

[vintagebb2014]

Here is my idea. I would highly recommend that you purchase up the 10,000+ T206 reprints that clutter up Ebay and burn them all. You would be making a video that most of us would truly enjoy watching as well as doing us all a favor by removing thousands of listings from Ebay.

[Joshchisox08]

Originally Posted by vintagebb2014

here is my idea. I would highly recommend that you purchase up the 10,000+ t206 reprints that clutter up ebay and burn them all. You would be making a video that most of us would truly enjoy watching as well as doing us all a favor by removing thousands of listings from ebay.

thank you

[dabigyankeeman]

Better you should burn the 1961 Topps card of that damn Mazeroski coming home after he hit the home run to win the 1960 world series, an example of an inferior team beating a far superior team and the worst memory for me in my life of watching sports.

[Mark]

Legally, you can, of course, destroy whatever you own. But it is bad form to destroy a work of art or any rare antique that is appreciated by connoisseurs. But if I owned the game used uniform cards, I would probably burn them because they are the residue of such destruction. I wouldn't sell them because I would not want to encourage anyone to collect them, and I wouldn't want them in my collection.

[mrmopar]

Generally speaking, my collection doesn't date back far enough or is not expansive enough to contain a lot of beaters. Most of my T cards are worn to some extent, but not damaged beyond displaying well. I started collecting as a 9 year old kid in 1978 and never really spent any real money on cards until after I got onto ebay in 1998 and was an adult, able to spend more. I have some cards that are just hard enough to find in any shape or are prohibitively expensive in top shape and I keep those cards with the better ones. However, mostly if the card is flawed in some major way, I don't want it in the collection. I don't have a lot of "good" cards or older cards that fall into this category, because normally I would avoid them all together, so most either came with larger lots I acquired or were mine as a kid. The problem is, I can't really seem to get rid of ANY of the damaged cards, even newer ones, so they sit together in boxes marked "damaged cards". Not much different than the good cards in my collection being stored in sleeves and top loaders in shoeboxes other than the fact that they are damaged. I'm sure the OBC gang would appreciate most of them regardless.



It it does eventually get burned, then the ashes must be spread across several "event burned T206 commemorative cards" that you can get one of the custom card makers to design and create. Then, like cut bats and jerseys, it can be enjoyed by many rather than just one!

[bbcard1]

Originally Posted by egri

Just had an idea: for the cost of a few good T206s you can buy a crapton of '80s junk wax, and have a good size bonfire. There may nor may not be too many T206s, but there's definitely too much from the junk wax days lying around.

I was recently at a show where they were selling CASES of 12 1989 Score sets for $8. I thought about buying one, pulling the Glavine, and using them in my fireplace as logs, but i suspect they would not give off very healthy fumes.