T206 Prices... Article by Buck Barker

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The catalog number assigned to the white border set in the 1936 edition of the The US Card Collectors Catalog was #521, and in the description for the set they list the number of known cards at 521 cards. Coincidence? They still referred to it as set number 521 in the April 1942 Card Collectors bulletin. Some time between then and the 1946 edition(and change of name to The American Card Catalog), the white border set was now listed as having 522 cards and had its 521 catalog number changed from 521 to T206. Ty Cobb as a back possibility was not listed in the 1939 or 1946 editions. In the 1953 edition Ty Cobb was added as a possible back to T206. Hustler, which was listed as a possible back in 39,46,53, was removed in the 1960 edition. Ty Cobb remained as a possible back in the 1960 edition. So if the person who created and maintained the T206 classification decided to include Ty Cobb in the T206 set then in memory of Jefferson Burdick no T206 should be considered complete without the fifth Cobb. Time to rearrange those pages and make room for another card.