I've officially been bitten by the short, skinny card
bug
11/04/07 17:48 PersonalGeneral Yammering
Virtually all my collecting life I've owned T206s.
When I was a kid, maybe 10 or 11, I used to go to a
card shop in Ridgewood, NJ. The owner kept a shoebox
full of cards for me - 1951 and 52 Bowmans, and
T206s. The Bowmans were fifty cents, the T206s were a
dollar. I'd buy a few of each with my allowance money
every week.
Since then I've always picked up T206s whenever I could find a bunch of them cheap. And last year I started working on a T205 set.
After looking through my collection this weekend, I've realized that lately I've been dumping a good portion of my collection, but keeping the T205s and T206s. And the more I look at them, the more I enjoy them. The art, the poses, the detail, the ads on the back. Thankfully I haven't gotten to the point where I need to have these in high grade (if I do, shoot me), but they're an awful lot of fun to have around. I can't see myself buying these one at a time yet, as I'm still too far from completion on either set to make it worthwhile, but it's an awful lot of fun to latch onto a big slug of them at auction, and then go through a big pile.
Since then I've always picked up T206s whenever I could find a bunch of them cheap. And last year I started working on a T205 set.
After looking through my collection this weekend, I've realized that lately I've been dumping a good portion of my collection, but keeping the T205s and T206s. And the more I look at them, the more I enjoy them. The art, the poses, the detail, the ads on the back. Thankfully I haven't gotten to the point where I need to have these in high grade (if I do, shoot me), but they're an awful lot of fun to have around. I can't see myself buying these one at a time yet, as I'm still too far from completion on either set to make it worthwhile, but it's an awful lot of fun to latch onto a big slug of them at auction, and then go through a big pile.
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