Finally finished my T205 HOFer set

[DixieBaseball]

Well done Zach ! I agree with another post, crack those rascals out and line em up side by side in a pocket sheet/notebook style... Great for looking through. How many HOfers are there in theat T205 subset ?

Great job !

[zljones]

Originally Posted by NashvilleBaseball

Well done Zach ! I agree with another post, crack those rascals out and line em up side by side in a pocket sheet/notebook style... Great for looking through. How many HOfers are there in theat T205 subset ?

Great job !

I have 23 total cards. If I was to pursue everything HOF including those rediculous slight variation cards then there would be 29 total. But I have no use for the Mathewson Cycle back variation card or the Wallace No cap 1 line. And I only chose active players at the time (excludes Duffy) and ones that made the HOF for playing ability. I excluded the Duffy because I always hated manager cards as a kid, I used to throw darts at my manager cards from the 80s and 90s lol.

[Runscott]

Originally Posted by NashvilleBaseball

Well done Zach ! I agree with another post, crack those rascals out and line em up side by side in a pocket sheet/notebook style... Great for looking through. How many HOfers are there in theat T205 subset ?

Great job !

I cracked 6 the other day. It's so cool to actually look directly at the card - it's the only way to really get a full appreciation for the quality of the lithography (especially for T205s), and the gold borders look SO much better completely naked. To add to the fun, I took about 100 T206s out of their sleeves last night and piled them up - it really felt decadent, given today's plastic encapsulation attitude!

[Runscott]

I asked about the Joss and Wallace/1 line, because I only have six T205's in my 'keeper collection' - the Wallace, a MC Joss, Cobb, Kirby and two ML'ers with stamps on the back. Based on my Joss, which got a 4, I think yours is under graded. Regarding the Wallace, I got mine by accident - part of a large auction house lot that wasn't identified. Nice surprise.

As an aside, to me, it looks like a lot more work went into producing a T205 than a T206 - it looks like the designers really tried to 1-up themselves with this set. Do any of the printer experts have thoughts on this?

[zljones]

Originally Posted by Runscott

I asked about the Joss and Wallace/1 line, because I only have six T205's in my 'keeper collection' - the Wallace, a MC Joss, Cobb, Kirby and two ML'ers with stamps on the back. Based on my Joss, which got a 4, I think yours is under graded. Regarding the Wallace, I got mine by accident - part of a large auction house lot that wasn't identified. Nice surprise.

As an aside, to me, it looks like a lot more work went into producing a T205 than a T206 - it looks like the designers really tried to 1-up themselves with this set. Do any of the printer experts have thoughts on this?

I do concur the owner that sold it to me also believed it is undergraded and I think so too. There is a very light crease on the front like a spider crease and just little tiny spots on the back like one or two. There is also a strange variation of color tints on his forehead, there is a spot of lighter pink instead or darker pink but that should still not cause such a grade I think a 2 with MC is in order. I very well may crack this case to get it regraded, the thing is I just love the appearance of cards inside a PSA holder, but I do not have alot of faith in their abilities to accurately grade pre WW1 cards since I have seen errors. This card after being cracked would probably be breath taking because the color is so vivid, sometimes I just stare at it for minutes at a time.

[ZernialFan]

Zach,
Nice job on finishing the set. That Collins Open Mouth looks exceptionally nice!!
Charlie

[zljones]

Originally Posted by ZernialFan

Zach,
Nice job on finishing the set. That Collins Open Mouth looks exceptionally nice!!
Charlie

Yes thanks to you haha

[Runscott]

Great that you got it done so quickly. Now you can still have a lot of fun slowly upgrading over the years. Well, in your case over 2 months