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Steve DawsonI can second Barry's comments about T206s. I was buying the HOFers back in the early '80s in ex condition, and paid $14-$30 each for all of them except the Cobb's, which ran $60 for the red portrait $68.50 for the bat on shoulder, $87.25 for the green portrait and $125 for the bat off shoulder. I even got an Elberfeld (Wash) in ex-mt condition for $150. The Lundgren (Chi) only cost $24 (it was vg).
Other cards I bought were an E90-2 Wagner in vg-ex for $60, 6 others from the set for $8-$14 each, a vg E90-1 Lajoie for $20, a T202 Ty Cobb Steals Third (w/Jennings) for $100 (vg-ex), T201 Cobb/Crawford for $72 (vg-ex), N162 Kelly in ex for $250, and N28s of Keefe, Kelly and Clarkson for $70, $85 and $90 each (Keefe and Clarkson were ex, and the Kelly was vg with Buck Barker's name and address stamped on the back).
The first ones I bought, T206s of Mordecai Brown, Bresnahan and Keeler, cost me $3 each in 1977.
Unfortunately, I sold all of the cards in 1991 for somewhere around $2,700. I started re-collecting pre-war cards in 2003.
Steve