Monogamously T206?

Orioles1954 · #1 06-24-2009, 10:05 AM

I once loved the T206 set, then I started working in the hobby. If you search the Marianas Trench or Mount Everest, I swear you will find T206 cards (along with Bob Feller autographs). Other than really difficult backs or signed cards, I really don't get the allure anymore. Plus, despite the rationale, I could never consider a set complete without Wagner or Plank.

Jantz · #2 06-24-2009, 10:21 AM

I guess you could say that I fit the bill. I only own 5 other pre-war cards ( 2-T205s, T207, 33 Goudey and a 34 Goudey-auto'd). I do have a lot of modern which I trade or sell to purchase more T206s.

Why?.........because of the challenge.

Jantz

Potomac Yank · #3 06-24-2009, 10:30 AM

I agree, regardless of the rationale, if you know the check list to any set, and you don't have the card ... you DON'T have a complete set.

I have two T206 sets, and regardless of how close they are to completion, they are incomplete, even though one of them just needs one card.

So what do I do?

I pacify myself by working on the T210 set.

T206Collector · #4 06-24-2009, 10:47 AM

....is that without Wagner you aren't complete. You would have a space in your collection that you dream about filling and yet never do. There's something really nice about that. If you knock of the E95 set -- so what. Too easy. But T206, well now there is an immortal challenge!

Potomac Yank · #5 06-24-2009, 11:06 AM

The Wagner is second by a mile, as the toughest card in the T206 set, but it is the symbol of the the hobby, and the one that I need.
Chances are that it might not come to be in my case, but life is full of surprises.

The Unbelievable we can do ... the Impossible ... will take a little longer.

If you're looking for an immortal challenge ... try the T209 type II set.