Im thru with t206s!!!

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Posted By: john/z28jd

Altho im jumping the gun a little as 8 of them are still in transit to my house,i officially finished my T206 set today 13 1/2 years after starting it.I originally planned way back when to just get 1 card of each player in the set and stop at that.My first card was a Bresnahan portrait bought from Larry Fritsch when he had a shop in Cooperstown back in 91. Paid $40 for it
After that i bought 4 cards from a local dealer,all 4 he had including a Home Run Baker and 3 commons,and a little while later bought 5 hall of famers at a card show in cherry hill.I went a little crazy with condition at first so the collecting went slow.I paid $300 for a real nice Jimmy Collins which would probably grade an 8.
I probably wouldnt have finished half as quick if it werent for ebay and of course some of the fine folks here.Also taking lesser condition cards helped too.When i realized how available they were on ebay i decided to get every card up till Elberfeld,washington portrait.That changed when i was able to buy a psa2 Demmitt and then i decided to get the O'hara too. When my dad won a Magie off ebay he changed my final goal for me. Now i love that he got a gd/vg copy for $1800 but when i was working part time back then and had to pay him back within a month i had mixed emotions about it
I also stopped collecting the fronts to concentrate on the backs for awhile and got every brand from drum on down,put them into a display and had to get the players that were on the front of each of them again.Since early 2000 ive been slowly buying the rest i needed,mostly one at a time which of course is more expensive but much more fun that way.I got into an error/printer scrap,etc collecting phase (when i got a rare upside down piedmont with parts of 4 backs) and i pick them up from time to time still.
If it werent for my hatred of Lee (he knows im kidding) i probably wouldnt have finished till sometime mid next year but i bought the last 15 this week in a holiday spending spree just to finish before him.Also the old judges collecting put a crimp in my t206 spending,but theyre so addictive too.I still havent started my xmas shopping btw but i still have 8 days for that.If anyone wants to know,the last 15 in no particular order were
Cobb,green
Evers,blue
Lajoie,batting
Johnson,port
Young,port
Tinker,port
Shaughnessy
Revelle
Rockenfield
White,houston
Smith,atl
Kiernan
Howard,savannah
Hickman
Hart,little rock

Id like to thank everyone here who helped me,tbob,Lee,Runscott just to name a few of the bigger helps and Bill and Elliot for the forum which was alot of help.I kind of lied when i said im thru with the t206s since i still collect 'errors' of all kinds.

On to the old judges,look out Kevin,now i can concentrate on taking your Mr OJ-NJ title

Anyone else wanna share t206 collecting stories feel free to turn this into that kind of thread.I know wonkaticket-John has been itching for one of those