Why is T206 Museum quoted as the authority on T206 by major auction houses?

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Originally Posted by rdwyer

One of many examples of BS from T206museum.com:

http://www.t206museum.com/page/periodical_81.html

"One of the great finds in the hobby almost walked unnoticed out the door of Orve Johansson's Largo, Fla., baseball card shop late last year. But because of the shop owner's concern for his customers, Johansson's now the owner of a rare, unopened package of 1910 Piedmont cigarettes. The pack's cellophane wrap still is intact, and the package contents remain hidden from the world."

The pack is 1930's. Cellophane wrap gives it away. I rather trust Alan Hagar than t206museum.com for info.

That same article was in a Beckett when I was a kid. It planted the seed of interest in T206. I'm sad to hear that it was untrue.

[canjond]

Actually the article in not entirely inaccurate. The pack does date to the 1911-17 period (can't be earlier as L&M is printed on the bottom, and that began 1911). Also, that's actually a glassine wrapping, not cellophane, so totally appropriate for the period. However, the pack will not hold a T206... wrong size configuration. Moreover, while I can't see the tax stamp, my guess would be it dates to more 1915 than 1911.

[wonkaticket]

Chan was such a bad story teller. The whole story just sounds bogus just like the Old Mill Double Bar story he made up for the creation cards he made.

A guy walks into a card shop with cards in a box from the 50's and has one 1910 Piedmont pack mixed in???

Sort of like a guy walking into a Comic Book shop with a pile of comics from the 1960's and a copy of the Declaration Of Independence mixed in...

[D. Bergin]

The entirety of the paragraph is confusing to me:

"But because of the shop owner's concern for his customers"

I don't get it. Did he convince him to quit smoking before offering to purchase his last pack of cancer sticks from him?

[FUBAR]

i bet those would be nice and fresh....

"But because of the shop owner's concern for his customers"

odd statement, so his customer has what he the card store thinks is a valuable pack, so he buys it out of concern??? Or out of the fact he thinks there may be a mint t206 in there and he knows how valuable that would be (yes i know he is wrong but i doubt he is an expert on which packs contain t206 cards)


i guess my ex that stole my collection was just looking out for my best interest as well, after all she needed that cocaine more then i needed the cards....