T206 steve evens -$$$$$$$$$$

[sreader3]

Evans is roughly at the median in terms of scarcity.

About as vanilla as it gets.

We had meme stocks like GameStop maybe we now have meme cards.

[Bobbycee]

Originally Posted by sreader3

Evans is roughly at the median in terms of scarcity.

About as vanilla as it gets.

We had meme stocks like GameStop maybe we now have meme cards.

Hey Scot. I checked the PSA Pop report on Evans: 294, which shocked me. That's right at the #'s of much heralded harder to find cards in Ames (hands at chest) & the very difficult Schulte (front view). But, why is Evans an expensive card now when it wasn't only a few months ago? Weeks ago he was vanilla.

His Buy It Now #'s on Ebay are stupid. They are at Matty white cap $#'s for the same grade.

[Pat R]

Originally Posted by Bobbycee

Hey Scot. I checked the PSA Pop report on Evans: 294, which shocked me. That's right at the #'s of much heralded harder to find cards in Ames (hands at chest) & the very difficult Schulte (front view). But, why is Evans an expensive card now when it wasn't only a few months ago? Weeks ago he was vanilla.

His Buy It Now #'s on Ebay are stupid. They are at Matty white cap $#'s for the same grade.

The PSA pop on Evans is actually 358 but I think he's still the lowest pop of any non Southern Leaguer that didn't have a team change Like Elberfeld, Dahlen, George Brown etc...
and his pop numbers are about the same as the team change subjects with lower pops.

Of the ones that sold in recent auctions it was the same two high bidders in all of them with most of them being won by the same bidder.

There are no major print flaws that I'm aware of just one minor print flaw that I've only seen on Polar Bears.

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[brianp-beme]

Hopefully the OP changes the title of this thread, because otherwise folks might think that both sides of these card transactions are getting even stevens.

Brian

[GWmotorlodge]

Wait, print flaw…. I’ve never seen one of those, how many are those are out there. I’ve never seen one.

[Pat R]

Originally Posted by GWmotorlodge

Wait, print flaw…. I’ve never seen one of those, how many are those are out there. I’ve never seen one.

I've only seen 7 examples out of 500+ Evans and they are all Polar Bears. I see there was a Polar Bear and a Piedmont with the flaw in the recent sales. That's the first non Polar Bear that I have seen with the flaw.
Steve B would probably have some possible causes of the flaw. My guess would be it had something to do with the Yellow printing plate.

Here's another example with the flaw

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[sreader3]

Originally Posted by Bobbycee

Hey Scot. I checked the PSA Pop report on Evans: 294, which shocked me. That's right at the #'s of much heralded harder to find cards in Ames (hands at chest) & the very difficult Schulte (front view). But, why is Evans an expensive card now when it wasn't only a few months ago? Weeks ago he was vanilla.

His Buy It Now #'s on Ebay are stupid. They are at Matty white cap $#'s for the same grade.

Hi Bob,

Pops have a price component as you are aware. Higher priced subjects get submitted more often. The main reason Evans has a comparably low pop to Ames HAC and Schulte FV (I’ll take your word for it—I haven’t checked) is that those subjects are higher priced. Watch the Evans pop spike from here.

This thesis is confirmable by normalizing pops by condition. Every subject should have close to the same grade profile in the wild. When I normalized pops by condition back in 2016 Evans came out about average in terms of scarcity.

Scot

[usernamealreadytaken]

Looks a little like Ruth 🤔

[ctownboy]

WARNING CONSPIRACY ALERT:

Maybe the buyer is going to keep the rare back and higher condition cards and make a You Tube or Facebook video or post which shows him/her/them DESTROYING the other Evans cards they bought thus making his card both famous and more scarce...

David

[ullmandds]

what? It's Over?????

[FrankWakefield]

Scot,

Good to see you're post, and to hear from you!

You've given me new descriptive words from that "in the wild" comment.

I have not ever cared for the term "raw" when thinking of the majority of my old cards. I thought of them as "normal" or "natural"... "ungraded."

And then there were those "slabbed" cards, or "graded", or "entombed".

Little did I know that what I have is both "wild" cards, and "confined" cards.


As to what your were describing, I'd think people could look at the 4 Cobb T206s and determine graded numbers, and then look at a few of the commons. Maybe do the same with the Cracker Jack cards of Cobb, Jackson, Wagner, and Mathewson; then look at a few commons. And then look at 1933 Goudey cards of Ruth and Gehrig... and a few commons. Those Cobb's, Ruth's and such are more likely to get graded.

It would realistically be true for the HOFers vs non HOFer commons. across the sets.


An aside... back in the day when we'd see binders holding tobacco cards, back when we weren't hesitant to touch them, I found that with a glance, most of us could easily see which ones were American Beauty cards without having to look at the back. AND, we could see uniformly rounded corners on a T206 and see that it had a flat surface (evidence of having been in a stack of such cards at some time), and we just knew that we were probably looking at a Series 150 card. Seems to me those cards got worn more than 350's, and again to 460's, because they were being caried around in the pockets of grubby little kids who weren't hesitant to handle them. There was something about looking at a sheet of 9,15, or 20 of those cards that allowed us to discern those differences.