Question about value of T206 card

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Posted By: John

George,

“How could someone accumulate 100 Powers cards?”

“Do the math.”

I am doing the math I guess that’s where my questions are coming from….

Obviously you don’t have 11 Wagners, 11 Planks, 11 Doyles or 11 Magies, so with 6000 T206s your going to have to have certain cards which you will have more of. Red Cobbs for instance are quite common or at least show up enough I don’t think any of the “veterans” would argue that.

So lets just say the Red Cobb makes up less than 1% of your T206’s which would be shooting low for this card, one could argue that this card is somewhat plentiful or at least more than 1%. But even using just less than 1% you would still have about 59 T206 Red Cobbs.

More math 6000 t206s in screw-downs, taking the avg. size plastic screw-down you would have about 4 cards to the inch. 12 inches to the foot run that thru 6000. That would leave you if you stacked them end to end with around 125ft of T206s.

Math from another forum member…

“It sounds incredible. 60,000 pre-war baseball cards?!!! Amazing. In your 40+ years of collecting you must have added an average of over 100 pre-war baseball cards per month, every single month! In 40 years, that would still leave you shy of 50,000.

Even if you had 10 complete T206 sets and every different Old Judge player and pose known, you'd still need over 50,000 more cards. You must have dupes upon dupes upon dupes.”

It’s the math that raises the questions George not the person or the person who owns the collection. I want to believe you, and for the most part I do I guess, it’s just the math behind it that makes me scratch my head. You said you take up one wall in bank vault, just the T206s alone would take a boatload of safety deposit boxes, even my meager collection takes the 5 biggest boxes my bank has, and I have less half a percent of what you have, not to mention it costs me more than $500 bucks for the boxes.

George I do apologize if I offended you and I will never inquire about your collection from here on, but to quote even Leon “it's almost hard to believe it sounds so great” please don’t be offended by my inquires be proud you have a collection that defies most imaginations here.

Kudos and good collecting to you.


Edited to correct math for Steve M below.