Nicholls SC150 649 OP CONTROVERSY

[mrvster]

and also John, Tim, Clayton the rest Thank You, at least you all had "cahoonies"...we are not here to "bash" Ted, just get him on the right track...since i have not been compiling back combos and that is not my expertise, i will leave that to Tim, Jim, and John....i'm sure they are all hurt because they have come to know Ted close and personally, like i said i am sadened....
Art M. is another living legend, and i respect him greatly, he may know the truth here.....

i have invested alot of time and money in this set like all the rest of us, and an advancement of the knowledge i respect...we need t206 "scholars"
Ted, do yourself a favor, please, just admit an "error"....let me get some respect back for you.....because i thought of you as the "professor" of this set(you also Barry!!)

Respectfully,

Johnny V

[wonkaticket]

Thanks Johnny, agree on all points and thanks for having the "nuggets" also to post well said all around.

Really a shame on Ted.

Cheers,

John

[mrvster]

John!!

THANKS
You Rock!!
You, Jim, Tim, Art and a few other may now be our true "scholars"...please keep up the good work guys!!

Hope you did well in rea

Peace

Johnny

[Sterling Sports Auctions]

I think what everyone what's is accurate information, if there is no proof a question they they should not be on a confirmed list. We went through the issue with a Cycle 460 card that has a good chance of existing but no one has been able to confirm it's actually existence.

I personally have submitted wrong backs To Bill Brown's Super Set and after being called out I rechecked my scans and found that I was wrong. Ted was even one that brought to question a couple of the cards.

Once again, I think what everyone wants is accurate information,

Lee

[wonkaticket]

Lee well said.

[Abravefan11]

Originally Posted by tedzan

P.S. Jim is attempting to rationalize his skepticism. But, he has no proof that this Nicholls entry is NOT valid.
TED Z

No, Jim does not have “proof” that the Nicholls entry is not valid but beyond anyone’s ability to produce an auction listing, scan, or other proof that this card does exist, there is additional information that should cause skepticism.

There are indicators that point to the SC 150 649 subjects being printed at the same time as the brown Hindu. If this is true a subject that can be found with SC 649 should be found with brown Hindu as well. All 34 subjects in the SC 649 subset have been confirmed with brown Hindu but Simon Nicholls was not printed with this back.

The brown Hindu printing excluded 1/3 of the available major-league subjects at the time and Simon Nicholls was one. In addition Simon Nicholls was incorrectly added to the brown Hindu list on this site but that entry was removed when shown to be bad.

This isn’t a case of doubting Ted just for the sake of trying to make him look bad as the initial quote implies. A tremendous amount of time has and continues to be invested researching this set and at this point the data shows this card more than likely isn’t a good front/back combo. I believe most people can understand our position and that in the end we only want the information being presented to collectors to be accurate.

[wonkaticket]

Proof or not, we’re looking at a guy who has not made a few clerical mistakes but an absolute attempt to lie and prove false cards to inflate his ego.

That’s way more than an innocent mistake of opps I made a typo Ted needs to put up or shut up if you will, but all Ted will do is cry the blues and play the victim here and drag innocent collectors into his fantasy land period.

As said before he can't show what he has never owned but never stopped hi from telling anyone what he has done in the hobby and how great he is etc.

If you're new to this board dont go taking Ted Z posts as gospel, they are like fruit some are good and others are rotten and stink.

Cheers,

John

[tedzan]

Your citing my original research (posted on this forum two years ago) regarding the correlation between the SWEET CAPORAL 150,
Factory 649 (overprint) subjects and their Brown HINDU counterparts. And, I realized at that time that the Nicholls card was the
exception to this correlation. As, Brian Weisner convinced me that a Brown HINDU card of Nicholls will not be found.

So, does a Nicholls card with the SWEET CAPORAL 150, Factory 649 (overprint) back exist ?

At this point, I cannot say it exists or it does not exist. Perhaps, I imagined it several years ago when I put together this sub-set.
Or, perhaps it was an invalid data point in an independent 14,000 card survey. I can say from my experience, though, that several
subjects (e.g. McIntyre, Schlei, Spencer, Wagner, etc.) in this sub-set are considerably more difficult to find than the majority of
the other subjects.

In any event, I've labelled Nicholls as UNCERTAIN on my SWEET CAPORAL 150, Factory 649 list. At the Chicago National this Summer,
I am getting together with an old buddy of mine on a deal, who is bringing his stock of 6,000+ T206's. Many of which are cards with
tougher backs. If this Nicholls card does exist, I expect that he may have one.


TED Z