E107 Type 2's....Who Collects?

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Posted By: Ryan

Just curious if anyone else on the board other than myself collects type 2's? I know a few fellow collectors who collect type 1's, but never really here of to many collecting type 2's? Guess, it is just that their are so few examples known? Any thoughts?

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Posted By: leon

Type 2's certainly have a bit more limited audience than the type 1's. I still need a type 2 for my "type set" but otherwise don't collect them. I do think there are a handfull or more of folks that collect them. I know Brian M. used to if he doesn't anymore...I think Keith O collects them too....best regards

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Posted By: Brian McQueen

Always happy to chime in on an e107 thread!

I did collect Type 2s for a year or so, 3-4 years back. I ended up with six of the eight cards, however never found a Socks Seybold, or a Tenny (the latter of which has eluded me in several sets actually). A Tenny type 2 was auctioned off in a Sotheby's auction but I lost unfortunately.

I did have a few nice ones. Had a nice Lajoie, a Delehanty, and a neat Waddell which at the time, was an uncatalogued card. I had a nice Doyle which measured to the full width of a Type 1 making it sort of a unique card. Delehanty is the big money card here and one of these may run you five figures.

At the time, I also made an argument that there were two different types of handcut e107s. Don't want to rehash all that, but there were clearly differences in the small sample of cards I owed. Some had greyish overtones on the front, was thicker and was grey on the back. Like it had just been cut off a box lid. The second type, which included my Delehanty was a relatively thin card, no grey overtones and a back that was blank and white and smooth as a cueball.

From my experience, there are no more than 3-4 of each example. I only know of two Waddells, and one of those two will never hit the open market. Lajoie might be the most common card and I've owned a couple different examples. As a rule, you typically find these with very narrow borders and the majority of what few there are are in extremely haggard condition.

It's definitely an interesting subset and I'm glad to hear someone is going after it again. I would have liked to have taken the time to have finished it, however e107s are so expensive, I didn't like having $25k tied up in just a few cards when there's so many other attractive prewar sets out there. So I ended up selling mine off and I believe they were auctioned off individually not long after.

Hope this helps,
Brian