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Posted By: BRIAN

Your right Brian, boy is that easy to say,high grade lajoie t206's do show up alot more than most, but so does marquard and of course cobb in all but the tougher green background. As much as i hate to admit it, I believe alot of the higher grade t206's have been trimmed, not all but a significant amount. I have been buying t206's for 25 years and can count on my hands the times when i came across really sharp cards. One of those occured in 1985 when I bought 33 sharp t206's from an elderly lady at the Metrolina in Charlotte, who said her husband had collected the cards. I sent most of these cards to be graded in 1997, most by sgc, because t206's look better against the dark background, and only received 3 88's and 6 86's. And yes, Brian there was a nice Lajoie Portrait. It's hard to beleive that a card packed in a tobacco pack, almost 92 years ago, could still receive an 8,9,or 10 when it's not easy to get many 9's out of rack packs or cellos from the 70's. be well brian