T206 Beauties

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Posted By: brian p

Although it didn't make my most visually appealing set list, T206's have a boat load of attractive cards. Here is my cargo list:

Regular Joes

Ames (hands at chest)
Ball (New York)
Barger
Bates
Beaumont
Birmingham
Bridwell (no cap)
Burch (batting)
Chase (black cap, white cap)
Cravath
Criger
Dahlen
Delahanty
Donlin (hands on knees, seated)
Dooin
Downs
Doyle (throwing)
Hemphill
Herzog (with sweater)
Hofman (Chicago)
Howard
Jones (Detroit)
Jones (St.Louis)
Kling
Leifield (pitching)
Manning (batting)
McIntyre (Detroit)
McIntyre (Brooklyn)
Merkle (portrait)
Oberlin
O'Leary (portrait)
Overall (right arm extended)
Pastorius
Pelty (horizontal)
Powell
Powers
Quinn
Rossman
Rucker (portrait)
Schaefer (Detroit)
Schlei (portrait)
Schmidt (portrait)
Sheckard (throwing)
F.Smith
Snodgrass (catching, batting)
Steinfeldt (portrait)
Tannehill (Washington)
Taylor
Thomas
Titus
Weimer
Willett (batting)
Wiltse (portrait)


HOF players

Cobb (bat on, bat off)
Griffith (portrait, batting)
Walsh
Chesbro
Crawford (throwing)
Joss (portrait)
Brown (portrait)
Johnson (portrait)
Keeler (with bat)
Lajoie (batting, portrait)
Mathewson (black cap, white cap, portrait)
Waddell (pitching)


If I were to just pick a handful (only the 'commons', as most people know the HOF poses, and I think sometimes our judgement might be muddied by desirability when we consider visual appeal), I would choose the following:

Action poses:

Leifield (pitching) Incredible colors, great pose, classic look
McIntyre (Brooklyn) Pretty background colors, unusual 'coming out of the side of the card' composition, neat uniform detail
Powell Great horizontal shot with extended arms, nice color contrast between sky and grass


Portraits:

Beamount My favorite of the red backround portraits
Wiltse The green background really brings out the sharp features of his face

Brian