My Great Great Grandfather Deserves His Own T206

[Mountaineer1999]

Ironically, I read the Snodgrass account just this evening in his chapter of The Glory of Their Times. Its a very interesting tale indeed. Thanks for posting and the clarificatons from how Snodgrass had remembered it.

[Jason19th]

Do we need to consider the date tommorow?
I know the Faust story is real but is the relation?

[irishdenny]

Originally Posted by Jason19th

Do we need to consider the date tommorow?
I know the Faust story is real but is the relation?

I Think that You MiGHT be onta something here!
Considering No mention of Faust havin children & his Only surviving Sister had 1 Children, and She only Lived til she was 32 years old...
The Smell of "Fools Bait" is All Over this one

Faust was born in Marion, Kansas on October 9, 1880, the oldest of six children of John and Eva Faust. John Faust was German, and Charles inherited his thick German accent. Sadly, the parents outlived four of their children. Freddy died in infancy, Fred died as a teenager, Louise (the only daughter and the only one to have a child) lived only thirty-two years, and Charles died at thirty-four. The two survivors were John and George, who took over management of the family farm from John Sr. Charles, a slow-witted lad at best, was incapable of running the farm, making him a sore disappointment to his stern father.

[Charlie Faust III]

I am looking for some serious advice regarding a strange T206 that I have in my collection. As I also enjoy humor; I would prefer serious comments with ideas in how I can proceed forward to find the best future home for this particular card(s).

For starters, I do not need to sell this card and would prefer to keep it in my collection though I have 3 1/2 years left on a huge alimony payment that haunts me and will continue to haunt me until I have it completely paid off. Don't get me wrong; I am not hard up for the money as I have been blessed with building my own business now on almost twenty years.

It appears this card made its way out of the printing factory and not inserted into a pack of cigarettes. Here is a brief description of the card:

1) Hand Cut
2) Double Struck Caption
3) Misaligned Plate by a lot
4) Color Shift by a lot
5) Missing Color/Hands, Face/Fleshtone
6) Team Insignia on Uniform Double Struck
7) Severe Off-Register
8) Reverse is shifted a little
9) No paper loss

I am pretty certain that this card has not been scanned, emailed, taken a pic of because it fell down the inside of a filing cabinet along with some other T206for almost 40+ years. The filing cabinet had a mental base and there these cards rested for almost 40+ years.

The other T206 in the bottom of the cabinet are strange also and consist of two cards of Southern Leaguers with double struck upside down backs. I haven't counted them but there are probably about two dozen cards that have a uniqueness to them to show that they all came from the same collector.

I firmly believe that these T206 need to all stay together and be sold as one lot as they may unlock some T206 unknowns.

Now with this all put forth, I don't feel that it is appropriate to show a front/back scan or pic here. I say this keeping the new owner in mind. Possibly he/she would not want these T206 shown to the public for the time being until possibly all research has been thoroughly done on them.

I am thinking about buying a scanner tomorrow and will post one or two partial scans of the card to show all Net54er's that this all is not just fluff. I know that I can scan the league designation in the caption to show that it has been double struck. I want also to show how far off the misaligned plate/color shift is (it is way, way off) without giving too much away but again I must proceed with care as the new prospective owner may not want to let anyone know any details about the card(s) until all research can be done.

[Mountaineer1999]

Well this took an odd turn

[pokerplyr80]

Originally Posted by Mountaineer1999

Well this took an odd turn

Agreed, from an interesting story to a bizarre sales pitch.

[Zach Wheat]

Originally Posted by pokerplyr80

Agreed, from an interesting story to a bizarre sales pitch.

I suspect the this has something to do with today's date. Good one....now who is the perpatrator?


Z