T206.. 1 Front.. Many Backs

[Blunder19]

Thanks Guys.. the challenge is part of the fun... the remaining backs will pop up now and again.. keep an eye out for me

[jp1216]

I love it when someone else starts a thread like this....

http://jp1216.webs.com/t206downs/

7 different backed Downs and counting... Plus a couple misprinted (no name) varieties. In the future, probably better to start with a Drum or Uzit and work back down - not up....

[Clark7781]

Those are nice collections! I just started doing the same type of collection. I was struggling with which card to do, and decided to do the Larry Doyle Hold Bat card.

No sure how many different backs there are, but I'm going after them!

[frohme]

Like Jamie - the remainder of these make take the rest of the lifetime...

Leifield batting 13/16(?) EPDG is on the way, lack Drum, Tolstoi and possibly Red Hindu if PSA registry is to be believed.



Leach fielding - 12/15(?) need EPDG, Lenox, and Pied Fac 42



Maddox - 10/11. Missing only Drum, I think.

[cdn_collector]

I'm not [currently] a T206 collector, but I love seeing these threads. There's something very cool to me about seeing a card all lined up with a bunch of different backs. Once I finally decide *which* T206 I will start another such collection, but until then I will collect vicariously through threads like this.

Great cards everyone!

[Blunder19]

Those 3 collections are awesome!!!

[lharri3600]

hi jamie,
nice!! i have the rest

Originally Posted by Blunder19

Thanks Guys.. the challenge is part of the fun... the remaining backs will pop up now and again.. keep an eye out for me

[cfc1909]

There was a Leach bending over brown Lenox in 19th Century about 10 years ago that sold for $4500

[FrankWakefield]

Mike, that is a very nice spread of backs. Thanks for posting. 2 Uzits. Impressive.

[Blunder19]

Mike.. how did you get all of your cards to line up for what looks like one large photo?? I would like to don that with mine... any advice..?

[DixieBaseball]

Mike - Superb run of backs ! Great to see em all lined up next to each other. I dig the thread...

[FUBAR]

Originally Posted by Blunder19

Mike.. how did you get all of your cards to line up for what looks like one large photo?? I would like to don that with mine... any advice..?

He justs asks them nicely, and they all line up!!

looks to me like he places them side by side and then scans them, then rotates the scan, or lays them out on a table and takes a picture of them.

[frohme]

Thanks for the positive feedback, everyone! Jim, I'll put the Leach Brown Lenox on the shelf just under Wags... as unattainable.

As for the process, I gently peeled the the cards in half and laid them all out on the scanner ... took the images all in one pass, carefully glued the two halves back together again and re-inserted cards back in the slabs (where relevant, of course). I think I got them all back in the right places...

But seriously ... for those that have asked, I use Paintshop Pro for both scanning and processing - any image editing software will do. This is simple scan, crop, save, and so forth. Combining images to make a composite is also easy. If you have a little bit of programming skill, there's much more you can do...

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Mike