Question for the T-206 set collectors

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Posted By: Frank Wakefield

Hey Myron,

Ted, Scott, Dave and T206Collector are telling you right.

I recall my first 3 T206s, bought 'em all at once. A mistake, I think... buy one so you can always know which one was the first one.

Card 100 is a bit of a milestone. Same with 200. Same with the halfway point.

400 seemed like a bunch of them. I recall some collection being sold years ago by an advanced T206 collector, he had 493 different. That was a lot back before eBay. I don't recall the collector's name, but I thought of him when I got my 493rd.

500 is a significant milestone. I'm at about 507.

Back when I was closing in on 100 I bought some reprints, including a Wagner, Plank and Magie... my thoughts were like yours, I can put that Wagner in the hole. At that time my T206s were in top loaders in a box.

As the box got more and more full I moved the cards over to the 15 hole sheets that are made for T cards. The cards looked good in a binder. They were alphabetical a la Beckett. At that point I saw that Wagner hole, but to put that crisp reprint in among the real cards seemed blasphemy, so I didn't do it. I think if you get a reprint, you won't put him in there either.

Now my T206s are in a small box in which my business cards arrived. I have them sorted by team, alphabetically. That seems the best way to sort them to understand them. You can see how the changes in series developed. Hardly anyone sorts them like this. But the old guys did. And I think if 'we' did, then maybe more folks would. For the uninitiated the simple alphabetical listing as in the Standard Catalog is easiest for them to understand.

Patience and persistence! I wish you well with them.

Frank.

My reprint Wagner isn't in that little box with the real guys.