Having Fun on a cold Winter night with my T 206 Collection

[RayBShotz]

Great post.
A lot of passionate enjoyment right there.

[JJ McGraw]

Thank you guys. I totally agree. When I started the collection over 30 years ago, they did not make these sleeves. Recently, when I started to think about doing this, I noticed these pages for sale and yes, they make a difference. I also found this company that makes binders with the theme of the particular card collection you are doing on the outside. I have not received it yet, but it has been shipped. When I get it , I’ll post a review. Here is a picture below. They come in 1, 2 and 3 inch.

[Cmvorce]

Fantastic post and photos. I too organize my t206 by team in a binder and I get more joy from flipping through those pages than I do from anything else in my collection.

Winter is such a great time of year to enjoy what you have. Thanks for the inspiration and good luck the rest of the way.

[CW]

Very nice!

[JJ McGraw]

Nice!!!! Thank you CW!

[obiwan1129]

Love the idea of a custom binder. Great way to make it your own.

I've been using the Lighthouse Vario binders which look nice and are the hanging style with a nice slipcase. It's great fun to pull my cards out and look through them.

[JJ McGraw]

Absolutely….the best way to enjoy them!

[ajjohnsonsoxfan]

ooh when do we get to see the CJ collection? :-)

[abmchenry]

This is inspiring me to put more of my prewar collection in pages. I haven't yet done much of this partly because I have graded cards, partly because I've been too reluctant to handle my 100+ year old cards and transfer them around. I need to get over that because this is a better way to enjoy your cards than only boxes of slabs. Thanks for posting this.

[JJ McGraw]

You are welcome. With a binder, you are definitely going to feel more like pulling it out and looking and ENJOYING the cards. That’s also why I organize mine by team as it is really neat to see the makeup of the players on that particular team. As I have been reorganizing , I leave a space for the card I don’t have yet. As of a few days ago, I was five cards shy of having the complete Boston Doves/Rustlers ( Braves) team . Two days ago I bought the five missing cards and 6 more of other teams that I was missing. I thought it was appropriate to finish that team as , beyond cards, I collect everything Boston Braves and New York Giants and couldn’t let them be incomplete in the album. Luckily , I had been collecting all things Giants for much longer and have a lot more of the Giants T206’s, although there are way more to collect than the Boston cards. Boston was having a tough time in 1909-1911, hence the low number on the card set….only 14. All of the five cards I bought were raw and can go right in the album. On my Cracker Jack Boston Braves set I started working on last month, again 14 in the set , but they are one of the larger sets in CJ land as they won the World Series as the Miracle Braves in 1914. The two I lack are Butch Schmidt and Lefty Tyler…….no luck yet, but I’m hopeful!