The one that got away--what's yours?

[mrvster]

ooooo so so many....

so many rare t206 backs to list, errors......
i feel you pain....a triple stamped sweet cap back real cheap, and many others....oh well,I can't be greedy
Peace

Johnny

[steve B]

Yeah, way too many.

T206 drum in VG I saw at the shriners show for 250. I had the money, but didn't want to walk in buy one card and leave.

Probably 4 or 5 Ruth or Gehrig Goudeys in vg-ex. When I was hanging out at halls after school they'd hand me the cards and tell me I should buy them. Usually they were $100. I really should have bought one.

Same with a Red Sox 1912 WS pennant $100! I've never seen another.

Instead I spent my savings on a couple semesters of college.
I'm still friends with the guys I met there, so it all worked out for the better


Steve B

[Exhibitman]

I was just thinking about this yesterday. What I most regret is not buying a T206 Wagner when I could have afforded one. Within a year after I started working I'd saved enough to have bought one for what they were going for at the time. Unfortunately, I bought a lot of stupid crap instead--condo, furniture, car.

[wolfdogg]

In the late 90s I located and could have bought a T210-8 Joe Jackson for under $10K in probably Gd-VG or so condition...................If I had done my homework and found it was one of only a handful known I would have bought it.......Oh well, Life goes on......with a swift kick in the "" every time I get in and out of the shower

[Vegas-guy]

Hello everyone! First post but been lurking for a while. Back in 2000 when I was really into T206s I was offered a PSA 3 Plank for 15k but passed so I could buy the other two Cobbs's I needed to have all 4 in PSA 6..

[Jeff Price]

I had a gentleman selling me some carmels and cracker jacks. Would only sell me his extras. I did buy a 1914 Jackson and lots of others but he only had one Mathewson. It was nice as most graded 3-6. He had close to a complete set that he said he would sell next time. Next time never happened. 10 years later I still think about his cards and how there sitting raw in a drawer somewhere.

[novakjr]

It's not exactly the one that got away, but I remember a purchase that I passed on at a show in the fall of '96 that's always kinda pissed me off. At that time I was still a very amateur collector(well, I'm still pretty amateur compared to most on this board). Anyways, my collection was still all modern, and I still thought that my '85 Topps Cory Snyder was the greatest card ever, well, that and my '82 Topps Rusty Kuntz. At that point I had probably about $30 on me. That was a lot for me at the time, since I was still just 15. Well, at about the third or fourth table I come to there is stack of '85 Topps Mark McGwire cards. Keep in mind, I didn't have this card yet, and he was down in his career, so the card wasn't really all that important at the time. The dealer had around a dozen of them, and wanted $3.50 each, or the lot for $30. I passed and ended up buying a '93 Select Young Stars Drew Bledsoe instead. The fact that Drew is still my favorite football player ever(and this is one of his most expensive rookie cards) is probably the only thing that's kept me calm in all of this.

Anyways, fast forward to the Summer of '98. At this point, I really wasn't collecting anymore. I'm in Fargo ND for the Junior National Freestyle wrestling tournament, and we had some time off, and a few of us took the bus to the mall. And while walking the mall, I see a card shop with a nice display window in the front, so I check it out. Right there in the middle of the display is a '85 McGwire for $350, and I later find out that people were ACTUALLY paying that much for 'em. Kicked myself in the ass hard.

I'm not so much mad that I didn't have the card, and I've attained one pretty easily and affordably now. BUT damn, I could've made a lot of money had I bought that lot instead of the Bledsoe.