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[Casey2296]

Originally Posted by Mattymc727

What does 3,300 T206 entering do to the market?

On top of the current flood of T206s coming to market this can only help collectors trying to acquire cards for their collections.
Now if someone would bring a 10,000 plus e-card collection to market we would all be in heaven.

[Hankphenom]

Can't wait to hear it. They don't look pack-pulled, but if all 10K cards turn out to be fresh though handled by a succession of owners, might this not be the greatest "find" ever? And if they aren't, who went about collecting so many multiples at a time in the hobby when that wasn't so easy to do, and why? In any case, there has to be a good story here.

[Mattymc727]

I was thinking the same thing! Perhaps the original owner was one of those boys looking for the “baseball men” back in 1910 and stored them away; any 10 yr old would have. Then he simply handed them down a couple generations until someone realized the value.

Only a 10 yr old would want every Cobb, Johnson, and Young he could get his hands on…superstars of the day.

I doubt very much a serious smoker in 1910 was holding onto these cards…

I hope the family is keeping a small set as tribute to the hard work and love put into the collection before cashing in. At least thats what the romantic in me wants to think…

Originally Posted by Hankphenom

Can't wait to hear it. They don't look pack-pulled, but if all 10K cards turn out to be fresh though handled by a succession of owners, might this not be the greatest "find" ever? And if they aren't, who went about collecting so many multiples at a time in the hobby when that wasn't so easy to do, and why? In any case, there has to be a good story here.

[Snapolit1]

The word attic will have to show up somewhere. I will bet on it. Couldn't have possibly had them in a safe deposit box or bank vault. Has to be an attic, preferably a farm house, preferably in the midwest somewhere. Probably buried under other stuff for last 50 years. Has to be a story, real or created.

[Fred]

Originally Posted by Snapolit1

The word attic will have to show up somewhere. I will bet on it. Couldn't have possibly had them in a safe deposit box or bank vault. Has to be an attic, preferably a farm house, preferably in the midwest somewhere. Probably buried under other stuff for last 50 years. Has to be a story, real or created.

Flea market? Followed by - lawsuit filed by flea market seller...

How about a load of W600s or E107s? Pavlov would have had a field day with this.

[puckpaul]

Originally Posted by Snapolit1

The word attic will have to show up somewhere. I will bet on it. Couldn't have possibly had them in a safe deposit box or bank vault. Has to be an attic, preferably a farm house, preferably in the midwest somewhere. Probably buried under other stuff for last 50 years. Has to be a story, real or created.

Needs an uncle or grandpa

[Huck]

Originally Posted by Snapolit1

The word attic will have to show up somewhere. I will bet on it. Couldn't have possibly had them in a safe deposit box or bank vault. Has to be an attic, preferably a farm house, preferably in the midwest somewhere. Probably buried under other stuff for last 50 years. Has to be a story, real or created.

Near a swamp, creek or river with a catchy colorful name.

[Beercan collector]

Like that red Cobb With the giant top border

[brunswickreeves]

Easily over $250K in HOFers shown (to-be-graded).

[jethrod3]

Originally Posted by Snapolit1

The word attic will have to show up somewhere. I will bet on it. Couldn't have possibly had them in a safe deposit box or bank vault. Has to be an attic, preferably a farm house, preferably in the midwest somewhere. Probably buried under other stuff for last 50 years. Has to be a story, real or created.

I think a lot of finds lately have been "behind a wall during home renovation!" Not sure why anyone would have walled up their ball cards back in the day though, but to each their own, LOL!

[puckpaul]

Originally Posted by Snapolit1

The word attic will have to show up somewhere. I will bet on it. Couldn't have possibly had them in a safe deposit box or bank vault. Has to be an attic, preferably a farm house, preferably in the midwest somewhere. Probably buried under other stuff for last 50 years. Has to be a story, real or created.

Hey, we have a barn!! REA find was in a barn.

[Brian]

How the hell did those cards survive in such good shape, in hot, humid Florida,
in a "barn," no less. Amazing.

[LincolnVT]

Is this a find or just one of many ungraded collections? Seems like everything not in a slab is a find these days.

[Hankphenom]

Originally Posted by Casey2296

On top of the current flood of T206s coming to market this can only help collectors trying to acquire cards for their collections.
Now if someone would bring a 10,000 plus e-card collection to market we would all be in heaven.

There is a current flood of T206s? How much of a flood? HOFs or commons, too? Have higher prices done this, or something else?

[Casey2296]

Originally Posted by Hankphenom

There is a current flood of T206s? How much of a flood? HOFs or commons, too? Have higher prices done this, or something else?

Hi Hank, hope you are well.

I'm not a T206 guy but going off of Ryan's recent comments about PWCC putting a large amount of T206's on the market along with the pages and pages of T206's I have to wade through at every auction it seems there is a lot of T206's on or coming to market. I think this can only be good for T206 collectors who are trying to add to their collections.

Maybe the T206 guys can weigh in with their opinions since they follow that market a little closer than me.

[brianp-beme]

I think there has always been a lake of T206 cards available for collectors, and there has never been a catastrophic dam collapse (in pricing on them). Us collectors have been proven to be a pretty thirsty bunch over the decades, even when the marketplace brings torrential downpours of them, or the economy siphons off supply during times of drought.

Brian (never too few cards out there to get T206'ed)

[ValKehl]

I'll venture a guess that there also are roughly 1,000 T205 cards and 500 T207s, but I'm very curious as to what other issues are in this huge hoard. I hope there are lots of real-photo, B & W cards from the 1916-1922 period. Also, I wonder where the collector of this hoard lived - if in the Northeast, there aren't likely to be any/many LA issues or PCL issues.