New T206 Doyle NATL Coming to REA

[G1911]

Originally Posted by MVSNYC

"It's also probably going to be the easiest expensive T card to convincingly fake as one only has to remove the Nat'l and I have little doubt we will see many more of them in 30 years."


Greg, the rare variation has "Nat'l" on it. The common card has it omitted.

I know this. And yet, clearly, I do not and did it wrong. I will not edit out my immense stupidity lol. Of course, one would only need to add, not remove, the "Nat'l".

[ClementeFanOh]

The REA will be incredible once again. Good luck to all! Trent King

[felada]

Or not so convincingly easy to fake

http://www.t206museum.com/page/periodical_5.html

[jayshum]

Originally Posted by felada

Or not so convincingly easy to fake

http://www.t206museum.com/page/periodical_5.html

Any idea what the outcome of the lawsuit was?

[Kevin]

I never tire from telling this story:my family and I were in Cooperstown on ‘84 or ‘85. Mr pulled up to a new store billed as the Baseball Card Museum. Place was still being painted, but we met a big man outside and he invited us in. It was Larry Fritsch himself. We saw all these cards. We saw the Wagner and the Doyle.

So Larry must have thought my dad was a player. He invited us in the back room and showed us all these raw cards. We were sitting at his office and he pulls another “Doyle” out. He offers it to my dad for 5k. Dad politely declined

We spent my paper route money on Evers, Chance, Matty and Red Cobb. I took the lesser Cobb for $25 less. Paper loss on the back. A decision that bothers me to this day.

[tedzan]

Imagine pulling a Joe Doyle Nat'L card from a pack when you were a teenager. Or, your Dad's visit to Atlanta in 1910, in which he acquired a Ty Cobb/TY COBB card for you ?

One of the most unique T206 collections in the hobby is on display at the University of Georgia (Athens). Former Georgia Senator Richard Russell's collection of approx. 1000
tobacco cards were donated to Georgia U. in 1983 (along with Russell's historical papers).
Russell was an avid BB fan as a youngster. At the age of 13 (1910), he started smoking cigarettes (PIEDMONT was the available brand in his area of Georgia). He pulled 100's
of T206 cards from the packs he purchased as a teenager. His T206 set has 497 different cards. No Wagner or Plank in his collection. Not unusual, since these two T206's were
not marketed with PIEDMONT cigarettes (only SWEET CAPORAL else where).

His teenage smoking habit came to an abrupt end in the Fall of 1911 when his parents enrolled him into Gordon Military Institute. It's my impression that his BB card collecting
also ended at that point (judging from the few T205 cards in his collection).

For more info, you can check out this thread posted in 2008......Senator Russell's collection incl. Joe Doyle error & Ty Cobb back

And, here's the link to an excellent website regarding Russell's collection...... http://baseballcards.galib.uga.edu/about/


Please do not misconstrue my intent here.....I'm not taking anything away from Larry Fritsch regarding his Joe Doyle N. Y. Nat'L find in the early 1980's.
I used to visit with Larry up in Cooperstown at his museum back in the 1980's. We were old friends.


TED Z

T206 Reference
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[Kevin]

Ted - do you ever show case your collection? I have 3 weeks off in August and I’d drive over to you in PA and buy you lunch and dinner for a visit!

How was Larry? He was sort of this Larger Than Life kind of guy…at least to 12 year old me, he was. Man, I remember that day with dad. What a great memory.