T206 Reference / Reflections.....Tuesday Nite Trivia

[tedzan]

Originally Posted by Pat R

My T206's cards are close to 50-50 personally I prefer ungraded by far but I do sell and trade my cards and even though I think the gap has narrowed in most cases the difference in prices realized is enough to justify having them graded.

I removed several of my plate scratch cards and when I sold the doubles I kept the ungraded examples and sold the graded if I had one.

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Pat

Since 1999, I have been acquiring GRADED cards, the majority of which I have cracked open. I lost count years ago; however, somewhere
I have stashed away more than 1000 "flips".
Most of them are T206's. And if I have intentions of eventually selling (or trading) a given card, it stays in Graded plastic. If it's a "keeper"
of any significance, I pop the card out and insert it in Hi-Quality mylar.

I would guess that you have cracked open many, many more than 1000 graded cards.





TED Z

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[rats60]

I would only grade if you were selling. My set has 5 graded cards that I bought already graded. Everything else is raw and will stay that way until they go to an AH to sell.

[Pat R]

Originally Posted by tedzan

Pat

Since 1999, I have been acquiring GRADED cards, the majority of which I have cracked open. I lost count years ago; however, somewhere
I have stashed away more than 1000 "flips".
Most of them are T206's. And if I have intentions of eventually selling (or trading) a given card, it stays in Graded plastic. If it's a "keeper"
of any significance, I pop the card out and insert it in Hi-Quality mylar.

I would guess that you have cracked open many, many more than 1000 graded cards.





TED Z

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Oh no Ted, most of the crack outs I've done were for the plate scratch research but I still left the majority of the graded plate scratches in their holders.
Even after I cracked some of them out over a third of the plate scratches I had were graded.

Here's are images most of the ones I had before I sold some of my doubles.

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[tedzan]

Originally Posted by Pat R

Oh no Ted, most of the crack outs I've done were for the plate scratch research but I still left the majority of the graded plate scratches in their holders.
Even after I cracked some of them out over a third of the plate scratches I had were graded.

Here's are images most of the ones I had before I sold some of my doubles.

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Pat

Sure is an impressive array of T206 cards (Graded & Ungraded).

Large groups of T206's always look great on a computer screen.

Thanks for posting.


TED Z

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[tedzan]

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I was asked by a Net54 "reader" to elaborate on the meaning of this which I stated in Post #1412...... "Especially arranged according to the 6 series of the T206 set."

I arrange my T206 cards in the binders with respect to the SERIES in which they were printed in. Starting with the 150-only group. Then followed by these SERIES.....

150/350 group

350-only group

Southern Leaguer group

350/460 group

460-only group.

I find that this practice reinforces my mind to remember the structural sequence of when (and how) these 524 cards were issued.


Example excerpt of 150/350 series PIEDMONT cards




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[53toppscollector]

I have my binder arranged like this:

Hall of Famers

// divider

Southern Leaguers

// divider

Sweet Caporal 150/649 OP sub set

// divider

Sweet Caporal 460/42 OP sub set

// divider

"The Rest" alphabetically

I debated sorting "the rest" by print group but I don't feel like removing cards from album pages at this point to shift things around again.

[tedzan]

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And, a couple of example 15-card pages from my SOVEREIGN set binder......


Example excerpt of 350 series SOVEREIGN ("apple-green") cards (66 subjects total)




Example excerpt of 460-only series SOVEREIGN cards (46 subjects total)



TED Z

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[tedzan]

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.... Sweet Caporal ...... Sovereign ......... Piedmont___The "House" that created these Tobacco cards___American Beauty ... COUPON ...…...... UZIT


Depicted here is a 15-card sheet from my SWEET CAPORAL, Factory #30 set. The cards in this set are arranged such, that the HOFer's and valuable cards are together.
And the commons in their respective Series follow in the subsequent sheets in the binder. I have only 6 graded cards in this set of 468 subjects.
My pride and joy, Eddie Plank, completes this this set (I consider it "complete" without the Wagner card).

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[tedzan]

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Hey guys, any of you interested in smoking a 111 year old American Beauty cigarette

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My AMERICAN BEAUTY 460 (AB 460) sub-set is 99% complete (73 cards of 74). Contrary to my aforementioned three T206 sets, this AB 460 run includes 32
Graded cards (44%). For the most part, the AB 460 cards are very underrated in terms of scarcity. The majority of the 350/460 Series (28) cards range from
being quite tough to very tough to find. Of the AB 460 cards (46) in the 460-only Series, 34 of them are also quite tough to find. In this Series, the easier AB
460 cards to find are the Exclusive 12. Therefore, I will get the AB 460 cards any way I can find them (Graded or Un-Graded).
I am not really opposed to Graded cards. I do prefer Un-graded, because I love to hold the cardboard in my hands; and, I certainly do NOT like spending $25
to $100+ for a piece of plastic (with a #) for a card, whose value is less than the cost for Graded it. It doesn't make any sense to me.


Come on guys, let's hear your opinions on this subject. Take some time for a meaningful discussion and some pictures.....Thanks.


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[tedzan]

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.... Sweet Caporal ...... Sovereign ......... Piedmont___The "House" that created these Tobacco cards___American Beauty ... COUPON ...…...... UZIT




In the Fall of 2007, I had completed my All - Sovereign set of 408 subjects. I was confident that I had figured out which T206's were not printed with Sovereign backs.
And, I am happy to say that my extensive research paid off, as my list of SOVEREIGN No-Prints have withstood the test of time.


Here is a sample of some of the 26 cards which still remain Graded (6.4 %) in this set of 408.

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Pardon me (if you don't mind), I'm curious to hear from T206 collectors with near complete sets that are entirely GRADED, how do you store these 400 - 500+ cards ?

Furthermore, how often do you look at your T206's ?


TED Z

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[Lobo Aullando]

Originally Posted by tedzan

Large groups of T206's always look great on a computer screen.

TED Z

Why not throw in some motion?



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