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Posted By: Joe Pelaez

"T206
I now have 503 different T206s out of my magic number of 517 (524 minus
Cobb with Cobb back which i don't see as T206 and the Big expensive 6)."

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Congratulations.
I've been following your T206 Quest, and you're doing great.
I would like to make a slight suggestion, if I may.
Take it from someone raised in Spanish Harlem during the '30's and '40's.
As a 10 year old in 1941, I would buy packs of gum from a candy store, with 1941 Play Ball cards inside.
Then I would flip them with other kids from my grade school near by.
Barry, in those days, I didn't know who Wagner or Cobb was.
In fact, I didn't know tobacco cards existed.
I got back into cards in 1982, and I started with collecting rookie cards. ... WRONG direction.
Wrong direction, because it was part of the investor/market/capitalization/stock market mind set.
That's not what I wanted. ... I already had a job, and I wanted a sublimation from it.
I decided to collect for the fun, and enjoyment of it.
Not ever thinking of what the card would fetch later.
It was a choice that I never regretted.
I kept my collecting hobby as a hobby, and not a portfolio.

As one collector to another.
Raise the bar just a wee bit.
Get rid of the 517 number

Back in 1941, I didn't know that I would own two almost complete T206 sets, and I agree with what you said about the Cobb back.

Raise the bar, and like that famous old ball player once said:
"ONENEVERKNOWS."

BTW, who did what to this thread?
I now need two plasma screens, side by side, in order to read it.

Joe P.