Can u remember ur 1st T206 u acquired?

[BleedinBlue]

Foley White. Bought it through Teletrade around 1995. Didn't buy my 2nd for more than a decade but I've made up for lost time.

[Zach Wheat]

First T206 was a Johnson portrait with rounded corners. I remember being completely puzzled as to what type of card it was and whether it was produced with rounded corners or not (my card had all perfectly rounded corners from years of wear). I was captivated by the bold clear printing. Kind of neat for something that old.

I still have it ungraded just as i purchased it.

[E93]

I picked up a red Cobb and a Lajoie w/bat from a shop in the San Fernando Valley (L.A.) in 1979. I traded a bunch of Brett and Lynn rookies and that sort of thing.
JimB

I do not still have the same Cobb, but do have the original Lajoie I bought 33 years ago.

[danmckee]

What is really neat so far is that I don't think any of us started with the same card.

Excellent posts and stories!

Keep them coming
Dan

[Vegas-guy]

Mine was a PSA 6 Nap Lajoie (port) in 2001 wish I still had it.

[DeanH3]

Matty dark cap for me back in 2002. I still remember being blown away when I first looked at it after taking out of the package. I still have it too.

[jcarlylep]

I have collected cards since 1979 when my dad purchased me some 1979 Topps packs so I could get a Thurman Munson card.I was hooked.I joined the old Piedmont Sports Collector's Club in Greenville, South Carolina the same year.

I attended my first card show in 1980 in Greenville, SC with $55.00 in my pocket.For $55.00 that day I brought home 1955 Topps Sandy Koufax Ex+, 1956 Topps Duke Snider Ex+, 1953 Topps Pee Wee Reese NrMt, 1954 Bowman Pee Wee Reese Ex+, 1966 Topps Sandy Koufax NrMt, 1960 Fleer Ted Williams NrMt-Mt, 1960 Fleer Ty Cobb NrMt-Mt, 1963 Fleer Willie Mays NrMt, T 206 Nap Rucker Ex, T 206 Zack Wheat Ex+, T 206 Tris Speaker Vg, and 12 common Brooklyn Dodgers cards from the 1950's Topps.

My best purchase of tobacco cards was at a Civil War Estate Sale in Richmond, VA in 1987.I bought a wooden sewing box containing 453 T 206 cards for $400.00 plus 135 T205 cards for $110.50.

I miss those old days.

[atx840]

May 2011, studied the set for years but never owned one, bought these guys to get a feel for the cardboard, size and colours. Next card was a red Cobb.

[4815162342]

Abbaticchio Blue Sleeves

It had rounded corners, was miscut, but it didn't have any creases -- or maybe they were ironed out?

[carrigansghost]

Hotel rooms, .25 a card, you guys are bringing back Navy stories in my mind. Still have my first Carrigan, now how about twisted stories of how we all inflicted with this vintage collecting ailment? New thread perhaps............

Rawn

[Griffins]

In about '73 at the age of 12 I decided that I was ready to move beyond Topps and Bowmans and get some really old cards. My friend had a catalog from Richard Gelmans Card Collectors company, so I sent off for my first T206. They were just random, you didn't know who you would get, but it didn't matter.
It was Bergen, Brooklyn and cost me .50 plus a stamp or some change for postage, still under a buck.
About a year later after subscribing to The Trader Speaks found out it was worth a bit more, since it had a Uzit back. Sold it for $10 and felt like a shark.

[tedzan]

1981 at Willow Grove......I recall acquiring this Hal Chase from Wayne Miller. Wayne was the "T206 King" back then. He would set-up at the show with
many 100's of T206 cards.
Wayne was set-up at Tables #27-28 at this show. From March 1983 - 1992, I was set up at Tables #38-39 (across the aisle from Wayne). I acquired
many T206's from Wayne back then. Those were really great times in this hobby.

For an example of how inexpensive T206's were in the early 1980's. From Bob O'Leary in 1982, I bought a Green Cobb for only $15....it was RAW.
Both Bob and I agreed that this Cobb was VgEx (Gee....whatever happened to good ole 2-party grading).








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[tonyo]

Originally Posted by danmckee

What is really neat so far is that I don't think any of us started with the same card.

Sorry to break the string Dan, but my first t206 was a "Downey Fielding" as well. Don't remember when or where or how much, but I do remember I got one just to say I had a tobacco card. Didn't catch the bug then, wish I had, my guess is that was mid 80's since the only cards I bought before college were packs at the 5 and dime.