Tell us of your challenging experience(s) working on T206 runs

[Yoda]

Ted, I, too, have been chipping away at a back run of old glove showing. It's been slow, but I have a nice little bunch going; Tolstoi, AB 460, Sov. 460, all SC facs, Prince of Wales and just picked up in the last Sterling auction a Piedmont 350-460 OP fac 42. But seriously doubt I can go much further, given the prohibitive cost of the Red Hindu and Uzit reverses. To me, the card's likeness truly resembles McGraw in real life: pugnacious, crusty and arrogant.

The pride of my T206 collection at one time was a Griffith batting PSA 7 with a Drum back. I sure wish I had held on to that bad boy. John

[tedzan]

Originally Posted by Yoda

Ted, I, too, have been chipping away at a back run of old glove showing. It's been slow, but I have a nice little bunch going; Tolstoi, AB 460, Sov. 460, all SC facs, Prince of Wales and just picked up in the last Sterling auction a Piedmont 350-460 OP fac 42. But seriously doubt I can go much further, given the prohibitive cost of the Red Hindu and Uzit reverses. To me, the card's likeness truly resembles McGraw in real life: pugnacious, crusty and arrogant.

The pride of my T206 collection at one time was a Griffith batting PSA 7 with a Drum back. I sure wish I had held on to that bad boy. John

Hi John.....this McGraw run totals 13 backs.

The Red HINDU of this McGraw is not that tough to find; therefore, it usually doesn't command a really outrageous price.
The UZIT is virtually impossible to find. Mine is actually the only known one (so far).

Incidently....I think you meant to say "SWEET CAP 350-460 Fac. 42 OP", instead of PIEDMONT. McGraw was not printed with the PIEDMONT 350-460 Factory #42 back.

Originally Posted by tedzan

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TED Z

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[t206kid]

Here's another good one. Was hunting for the Boston EPDG for quite awhile. Several of the others are quite difficult but the stars aligned when I was building.

[tedzan]

First, I will start this run with my "MEGA T206" of Mickey Doolan, which motivated me to do this T206 run several years ago.

I have always liked this action pose, it's a favorite of mine. Anyhow, this run started when I purchased this T3 from Don H. in Portland, Maine.


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This run would be relatively easy, since there are only 9 different backs needed to complete it. But, I still need the BROAD LEAF 350 card. According to my A-B-C-D theory,
DRUM is possible; however, no DRUM has been confirmed as of this date. Furthermore, this Doolan card belongs to a very interesting group of 350-only Series cards which
were not printed with these 4 popular 350-only Series backs. Namely... CAROLINA BRIGHTS .... EPDG .... OLD MILL .... POLAR BEAR.







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Sweet Cap, Fact. #25




TED Z

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[Kevin]

I had to make a decision about finishing the basement or buying t206s. And I bought about 130 cards last year but I really should have bought 10. I’m refocusing on the bigger cards in the set at the moment.

[KCRfan1]

Originally Posted by Kevin

I had to make a decision about finishing the basement or buying t206s. And I bought about 130 cards last year but I really should have bought 10. I’m refocusing on the bigger cards in the set at the moment.

So the basement will be unfinished during 2022, maybe work begins 2023?

Are you married? How does the wife feel about this.........

[t206fix]

Not a back run... but a "front run". I made the unfortunate mistake pleasurable decision to try to collect all 613 Sweet Caporal factory 25s in all three series:

150s - 150 variations (not including Plank/Wagner)
350s - 394
460s - 69

Currently I have 547/613 needing 66 more cards - including 19 HOFers (3 Cobbs, 4 Youngs, 2 Wajos and 3 Mattys $$$$). I always said this would be a ten year project, but with the price of some that I'm missing, it may be a lot longer. However it is a fun project that keeps me in the game. When I find a tough factory 25 for a reasonable price, it keeps me going.

Here are the 460s, the first subset I finished. Most have been cracked for my binder.

[Yoda]

Originally Posted by tedzan

Hi John.....this McGraw run totals 13 backs.

The Red HINDU of this McGraw is not that tough to find; therefore, it usually doesn't command a really outrageous price.
The UZIT is virtually impossible to find. Mine is actually the only known one (so far).

Incidently....I think you meant to say "SWEET CAP 350-460 Fac. 42 OP", instead of PIEDMONT. McGraw was not printed with the PIEDMONT 350-460 Factory #42 back.

Ted, I did indeed mean Sweet Cap o/p fac 42 rather than Piedmont. Too many Mugsie's rattling around in my brain. Your Uzit is a trophy and wins the prize.
John.

[rjackson44]

ive learned a lot from ted z ..hes the best and terrific .best octavio

[Luke]

Awesome stuff everyone! I'd been meaning to make a collage of my HOF back run and finally got around to it. Still need to sort out a lot of Piedmont and Sweet Cap backs and hopefully someday find a BL460 and Brown Lenox. And then when it's "finished" the plan is to have no more than one of each pose represented.

[MVSNYC]

Luke, that's a stunning back run!

[atx840]

That Young RH & Speaker Drum

Very nice Luke!