T206 Back Scarcity, Pricing, and Other Tidbits

[t206kid]

Originally Posted by uniship

Curious if anyone knows of any hoarder who might have the most copies of any one T206 card - and if so - about how many they have.

300+

Some might have even more. There are quite a few cards that are hoarded.

[Leon]

Originally Posted by t206kid

300+

Some might have even more. There are quite a few cards that are hoarded.

Are you sure we aren't talking Miller Obaks? Three hundred is a lot of any card!
I have a few dupes, meaning quantity 2 ....

To the subject, I have never thought P42s get their due rewards.
.

[53toppscollector]

Originally Posted by Leon

Are you sure we aren't talking Miller Obaks? Three hundred is a lot of any card!
I have a few dupes, meaning quantity 2 ....

To the subject, I have never thought P42s get their due rewards.
.

I was doing some research yesterday on raw card sales and saw this

https://www.ebay.com/itm/384949345645

Instant sadness. I literally try and click on every Piedmont 350/460 listing to check for hidden factory 42s and I somehow missed this. It sold for the price of a lower grade raw Factory 25 back. Sure, it has a hole punch and some writing, but I count 10 total copies graded between PSA and SGC. So bummed I missed this.

[RCFire82]

I had been watching that one all week James. Somehow I missed it as well...I snagged this one a while back. It wasn't listed in the title or description as a P42, and the picture of the back (as you can see) wasn't the best.

[RCFire82]

Originally Posted by Leon

Are you sure we aren't talking Miller Obaks? Three hundred is a lot of any card!
I have a few dupes, meaning quantity 2 ....

To the subject, I have never thought P42s get their due rewards.
.

Along the same lines as the Sweet Cap. 350/25's

[53toppscollector]

Great spot there, Ryan.

I think it was Luke who had noted this on his site that the Factory 42s have a "longer" string of print text, things are spaced more, so in some cases even if the back image is tougher to read, the Piedmont 42 cards have a longer string of text at the bottom than the Factory 25s. It definitely jumps out to me more now when I am spot checking cards on ebay.

I'm currently working on a way to better catalog raw card prices, still haven't perfected it, but I feel like I am getting there at least. Hopefully will be able to share some insights on that in future posts in this thread.

[atx840]

As noted the Tinker is quite tough, I think there are 4-5 known now.

[53toppscollector]

That's a really sharp card there, very impressive.

There are a ton of very very low pop P42s. My data on pop counts is a few months old (will be updating soon), but based on what I have, I have the following cards with 5 or less combined graded copies between PSA/SGC

(5): Baker, Bradley With Bat, Chase Blue Portrait, Jennings One Hand, Schlei Portrait, Seymour Portrait, White Pitching, Willetts

(4): Chase Holding Trophy, Davis (Davis on Front), Leifield Batting, Marquard Pitching/Follow Through, Mullin With Bat, O'Leary Hands On Knees, Steinfeldt With Bat

(3): Lajoie With Bat, McIntyre Brk+Chi, Pfeister Throwing, Wilhelm Batting, Wiltse Pitching, Wiltse Portrait With Cap

(2*): Tinker Bat Off

* The Tinker pop report is wrong. PSA shows a triple 0 for his P42 population, but Ryan has a P42 in a PSA slab that he linked to earlier for his completed back run. SGC shows 2 of them, the one Chris posted, and then an SGC 1.5. We also know that PSA did not track factory numbers early on, so there are likely a few Tinker Bat Offs with a "T206 Piedmont" on the slab that is actually a P42 back.

[atx840]

Thanks James. I know of 4 Tinkers, Ryan, mine an Authentic and a board member owns another.

The Chase was also very tough, agreed these are definitely underrated.

[Bobbycee]

James, missing from your low PSA Pop, Piedmont 460/42 list is Willis Batting. There are only 5 listed. Not sure how many SGC there are. I have a PSA 5.5 & it's not listed in the Pop report.