Terrific example of a great card, Leon. I recall a short while back there was a thread criticizing T205s and specifically (by some members) this card.

It was knocked for being to garish or "busy", and also the fact that Mr. Cobb appeared to be lacking a neck. For me, this all adds to the charm and appeal of the card. Who made the rule that baseball cards had to be anatomically correct?

This card has it all -- the color scheme; the gold borders; an artistic, stylized portrait of Cobb wearing his crumpled Tigers cap with white prinstripes resting within a baseball diamond. The crossed bats, mitt, and catcher's mask are framed perfectly below Ty's chin, while the Tigers logo and team name rest above him on the outfield grass. A great piece of art, and a fantastic example of lithography from the early 1900s.

Beautiful card. I went back an forth on a lot of these but chose the less rosy red version in the E103 and since I'm displaying side by side preferred the yellow background of T206. Thanks for sharing.

C'mon, post your best portrait. The real idea is to have a thread full of images anyway.

Nice Bender Jim! He are s'more CJs ... not sure if the Merkle and Cicotte are true portraits, but they at least seam to be sitting :)

Don't want to disappoint you,,,,,:eek::D

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Mike, a shame about the paper loss on the back.

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That's a rare variation spelling. Known as the exlamation/period variation Waddell.

Of my 280-something T206, Rube is my favorite. He is the reason that my Monster Number on Frank's thread is not a whole number. :D The rest of the guys are quite pedestrian, but Rube has "STYLE" :)

As always, I will ask. Does anyone have any theory as to what happened to him? Past suggestions have included a scrapbook removal gone very, very wrong and Mr. Waddell throwing himself on a grenade to save his collection-mates. The primary reason I couldn't resist added him to my collection is not that he is this op-art condition, but that even though he is, someone still kept him in their collection all these years.:eek: