T206 EPDG- - - how rare in your collection?

[Archive]

Posted By: William Heitman

This is my second try--my first didn't take. I wanted to answer Ted's question regarding the Schulte card. I can confirm all five of the 150 backs, including Sovereign, and a Hindu back.
Here are the errors in the Monster that were all made in the transfer from my list to the book's list: (1) Nos. 20 and 21 should have the 350-460 series blacked out; (2) Nos. 36 and 150 should not have the series 350, Piedmont through Sweet Cap, blacked out; (3) No. 37 should have the entire 350 series blacked out; (4) No. 42 should have the Ty Cobb back blacked out; (5) Nos. 91 and 119 should have the 350 series, American Beauty through Drum, blacked out; (6) No. 141 should not have the series 350-460 blacked out; (7) The entire Texas League should have the Hindu back blacked out; and (8) After No. 509 Smith, Shreveport, there should be a team listing for Waco and No. 510 Thebo then shows as being on Waco. There might be more.
On Sweet Cap backs, in the 150 Series, I found #30 to be the most plentiful, followed closely by #25 with #649 being by far the least common; in the 350 Series, again, I found #30 to be more plentiful than #25; and, in the 350-460 Series, I found the overprint to be the most plentiful followed by #'s 25 and 30, both just about as plentiful as the other, and factory 42 to be the least plentiful. In all three series types, I found Piedmont to be more plentiful than any one of the Sweet Cap backs. In all three I found Sovereign to be just a little less plentiful than the two most plentiful Sweet Caps.
I've often been asked what started me collecting T206 in what was once considered my insane way. Well, I'm my family's third generation of card collectors. My grandfather began as a young boy in the 1880's and he got my father started as a young boy. My father collected regularly from that time until his death some 70 years later. After my birth, my father decided that he now had to collect two of everything because he then had two sons. When I was very young, he showed me these little white bordered cards that he was working on. I was rather disappointed that they didn't say anything about the players on the rear of the cards as the gold bordered and brown bordered cards did, but something drew me to the American Beauty, Broadleaf, Carolina Brights and Polar Bear backed cards and the rest, so to speak, is history.
I am just thrilled that all of you guys are trying to contribute to the solution of some of the many mysteries of The Monster T206.