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Posted By: Tom Lawrie

How about try to collect one of every different type of Obak 1910 150 and 175 series backs.

Or, collect one Zeenut of every different year with coupons (depending on year) attached.

Do you have a master 1941 Goudey set? (Every player and color combination). Not type collecting, I know, but something up your alley.


Do you have one from each T210 series?

What about the different Coupon back varieties? What about all of the T216s?

And for your M101 type collection, I assume that you have all of the different backs for each of the different years of distribution (e.g. Sporting News 1915, Sporting News 1916 ... or whatever year they were issued), so you should have 2 of each of the backs issued in both years, and one back for just single years. Plus they should be players with variances from one year to the next so that you can distinguish and give us any insight into potential printing differences, size variations between years, etc. And if you could find the same player, with different numbers, for the two years, even better. Take the Dooin card for example, #50 in one year, #49 the next. Each to notice and remember. Nobody really gives a rip about him in particular. And that way you could definitively prove which backs were which year.

So Leon, put down your ice-fishing pole, put away your smoked blubber and walrus jerkey, hitch up the dogs, and get to work a-collectin'.