T206 Survey

Comiskey · #1 03-01-2010, 02:16 PM

Well, I started collecting the T206 set with the New York Giants sub set. I had just read a great book called the old ball game which highlighted Christy Mathewson, John McGraw and their Giants team and so I decided it would be fun to put together the giants set. Well it took me about a year to collect the sub set in about good to vg conditon. During that time I decided to get a couple of additional HOFer's such as a Cy Young portrait and a Ty Cobb (Green) portrait card. Well the green in the T206's kinda stuck to me and I started looking at the backs of some of these cards and really liked the look of the American Beauty's. Well, guess what happened next......I ended up buying a few T206's with an emphasis on AB backs. As you can see, the monster sucked me in and now I am 188 cards into the set and loving every minute of it!

All of the cards I collect I either buy graded and crack them out or buy raw and keep them that way. I keep almost all of them in penny sleeves, then placed into the T size top loaders and then place them in a 3 ring binder. They look incredible together and it's a blast flipping through the pages seeing the different teams together and on the opposite side I can see the diverse group of advertising backs that I have collected. The only cards from my T206 set that are still slabbed are my Demmitt and O'Hara cards. Other than that they are all "naked." I also have been lucky enough to add a couple of T206's to my set such as the T206 Cobb red portrait from the skydash collection and a Lundgren with an EPDG back. I am also always on the lookout for T206 oddities. I have some T206's with names on the top, miscut backs, two names on the card, and some with color problems to the front. At this point my set is pretty diverse which I am pretty happy about and hope to continue this type of set building in the future!

Here is a break down of my set so far:

American Beauty (Framed)- 30 cards
American Beauty (No Frame)- 1
American Beauty 460- 2
Piedmont- 77
Sweet Corporal- 32
Sovereign- 3
EPDG- 9
Tolstoi- 3
Old Mill- 10
Polar Bear- 4
Hindu- 14
Cycle- 1
Lenox-1
Drum-1
Uzit-1

Here is a photo of my T206 set:
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As for the survey question, I feel like I could fall into all of the categories. But thats what's so great about the set, you have so many different ways to collect it, you could potentially collect it forever!

Jeff

Steve D · #2 03-01-2010, 07:05 PM

Be careful all ye who collect only T206 teams/subsets/backs/etc.....

I innocently began that way. I wanted to collect only the hall of famers. Once I completed that, I looked at them and said: These cards are too nice to stop now!

So.....I decided to collect all the Brooklyn Superbas (Dodgers), Chicago Cubs and New York Giants. As I approached completion of those, I said: These cards are far too beautiful to stop now!

So.....I'm now at about 51% of a complete set!

When it comes to The Monster.....Be Afraid!

Be Very Afraid!!!!!

Steve

HRBAKER · #3 03-01-2010, 07:16 PM

HOFers only

ethicsprof · #4 03-01-2010, 11:16 PM

after taming the Monster, i took on the Canfieldean obsession and have tried to get an example of each tobacco pack within the T206 era. I also have a dose of
the Luckeyean fixation with 'types'.
Tuff, tough, very difficult---but great fun.

best,
barry

Jantz · #5 03-01-2010, 11:18 PM

As many of you may already know, when I started this set I was just going to do a Cleveland team set and like most everyone, I got bit. Long story short, I'm at about 40% now, but I find myself being more selective of the T206s that I buy. By that I mean that I would like to do a Polar Bear back set, so now I'm trying to "kill two birds with one stone". If a player has a card with a Polar Bear back, I try to buy that version first.

I found it interesting Andrew that you refer to the set as with/without the "Big 6" instead of the the "Big 4". I say this because maybe a week or so ago, there was a raw Demmitt (St.L) on Ebay. I watched it throughout the week and after seeing the final price, it made me wonder if I will ever own it or the O'Hara. 518 just might be the magic number for me too.

Jantz

martin neal · #6 03-02-2010, 07:20 AM

Mike, it's good to hear you may be getting into t206s again. I remember those pristine cards tou used to have.
I bought my first T206 around 1988, and completed the set in 2008. Although, I am not that exicited about "keeping" the set as I was "building" the set, I find it very hard to sell certain cards. I toyed around with the idea of keeping around 20 of my favorites. Since then, I have pared them down to around 600.

Dustanh1 · #7 03-02-2010, 11:37 AM

I am going for one of every front, and trying to acquire one of as many backs as I can along the way. Depending on the back, I will downgrade a cards grade to get a better back. For example, I had a common in an SGC 40 with a Piedmont back, but I "downgraded" to a PSA 2 with a Hindu back. Hindu is my favorite back, so I try to get as many of them as possible, but I would like to have as many different backs as possible. I'm shooting for 518, but that is based on my current financial situation. I am only at 101 or 102 right now, so who knows if that situation will have changed when I am approaching 518-520, or what the market will be at that time. Whatever....I'm having a blast.

M's_Fan · #8 03-03-2010, 02:20 PM

I collect every hall of famer in each variation. There are 76 total, but I won't ever get the Plank or Wag. I'm trying to have my set be SGC 40 or above, but I really prize eye appeal even at the cost of some grades. I'm thinking of putting them into custom made frames, but who knows if that will ever happen...

View Poll Results: How do you collect your T206 set
The set +/- the Big 6	47	45.19%
Teams only	8	7.69%
Backs only	10	9.62%
Sub sets only	17	16.35%
I have just a big pile and am not sure if I will ever have a full set	22	21.15%
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