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Posted By: warshawlaw
Can any Obak experts out there offer any insight as to why these cards are so vivid, even compared to T206? In art terms, they have a luminosity that makes the images jump right off the card at you, like an oil painting rendered with lots of washes. |
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Posted By: Peter Thomas
I think the printing ink is entirely different. Obaks have a lacquer like surface that leads to crazing on many of them, T206's and 205's have a more pastel finish, T207's also have similar lacquer like finish, but not vibrant colors like Obaks. |
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Posted By: Ted Zanidakis
ADAM W. |
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Posted By: Tim Newcomb
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Posted By: tbob
The 1909 Obaks are quite different from the 1910 and 1911 series cards. The colors on the '09s are very muted, more pastel and don't have the eye appeal of the 10s and 11s. They are also a jillion times harder to find. |
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Posted By: Brian
My understanding is that 1910's have a certain 'gloss' and they are the first cards to have such. |
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Posted By: warshawlaw
I have a funny feeling I will be chasing more than Phil Cooney's card at the National... |
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Posted By: John
Brian; |
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Posted By: Bob Rousseau
I deterred away from T206s for a spell and was acquiring Obaks. I loved the images = players out in big fields with buildings only faintly behind them, and usually vibrant skies, and living in Seattle, I loved the Pacific NW connection. |
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Posted By: Brian
Wonka -- that is a personal problem me thinks. Are you going to Nationals? |
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Posted By: Bruce Babcock
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Posted By: tbob
In 1995 at the St. Louis National I couldn't decide between an EXMT 1911 Obak Weaver in EXMT with a diamond cut for $75 or a VGEX one for $75. I ended up spending the $75 on some card that is probably still worth $75 today I finally decided on the VGEX one and when I went back later in the day it was gone. I thought the EXMT one with the diamond cut was not that great of a buy. Anyone here end up with either of those? Now my 1911 Obak set is complete with a F-G one that cost more than $75. Shrewd business acumen, huh? |
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Posted By: quan
always love hearing stories about your mis-adventures, they never get old . |
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