T206 Scrapbook on Ebay

[barrysloate]

The album looks old, so perhaps somebody added some Dover reprints to the genuine cards that were already pasted in. Most of the cards look dead on original, then there are others that don't even look like cards at all. It might be a mix of real and fake.

[wonkaticket]

The seller emailed me and sent a photo/card of the orginal owner of the scrap book who was involved in baseball...the owner is still alive and somewhere in the NY area.

[joeadcock]

Wow. A new Mayo

[barrysloate]

Now that Mayo is an absolute fake!

[T205Guy]

Some of the cards look real and some don't - but the DESCRIPTION is very SCARY!

[HRBAKER]

Originally Posted by wonkaticket

The seller emailed me and sent a photo/card of the orginal owner of the scrap book who was involved in baseball...the owner is still alive and somewhere in the NY area.

Sloate? Wasn't he a reliever best known for correcting his teammate's spelling errors?

[sbfinley]

No word from the guy yet. I doubt he will email me back. Worth a shot though. Best of luck to those daring enough to bid.

[judsonhamlin]

Well, with 20 hours left, this is at 3100. It does look like a great deal of work went into this, but I fear someone is going to get burned when the only real cards turn out to be the T206 beaters. The first thing that bothers me is the pencil captioning. If these are players of "yore" or "yesteryear", that implies that the T212's. T206's, etc were old when the album was put together. That doesn't mesh with the purported age of the album itself. Those down home sentiments are also pretty funny when talking about the Cardinals - yeah, the doorstops of the 1900's NL were much better than the Gashouse Gang or Musial, Slaughter, Gibson, Brock, etc...
It is also convenient that despite all the apparent use this album has seen, only one card has separated from the page - a beater Sweet Cap T206. Not one rare card/HOFer has come loose. Glue technology must have been something back in the the day (of yore).
My guess is that this was put together by someone who was carefully trying to reproduce what he felt a collection of cards would have looked like circa 1910-15, HOF players and all, but was smart enough not to put a T206 Wagner in this mix. I also am amused by the question posted about the calue of the Mono cards. If I am correct, referencing the other sets in the question will trigger a hit on a Title and Description search. How about that- wow, what a thoughtful question. Thanks.
I think the seller has a previously unknown Vermeer for auction also

[jimq]

In one of the pictures there are some cleveland players and above them it is written "Cleveland's Indians never won a ... but Addie Joss kept them up there"

Tells me that it was put together much later and the story about the owner being involved in baseball is crap.

Joss died in 1911 and the Naps weren't renamed the Indians until 1915 when Lajoie went back to Philadelphia.

Anybody that involved in baseball and baseball card collecting would have known that.

[ullmandds]

I'm beginning to think you guys may be right...that this is a modern day concoction of xerox copies with a few commons thrown in...I'm sure paypal will save the day on this one!