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warshawlaw**T206 Hofers
**Favorite player stuff: Lefty O'Doul, Sandy Koufax
**1925-29 Exhibit PC back set (My obsession set--can't stop 'till I get all the variations)
**1954 Topps (I put a set together when I was 12 and sold it for college and I am gradually reworking the stars)
**1971 Topps (my 1st major collecting set; I was 6. Still have a few)
I tend to collect offbeat cards and types when they are attractive. I'm not keen on set-making because I don't like spending $$ on commons. I like certain players and try to amass one of every one of their cards. I like cards of certain significant groups of players from the same set (I just finished my T206 portrait group of Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance). Some cards I like for aesthetic reasons (E95 Young comes to mind as does M116 Wagner). Others I end up with because they make financial sense (someone offered me a deal).
Five I don't much like:
**T207: sorry, just doesn't yank my crank
**1955 Bowman: One ugly set
**N172: I recognize the value and significance of these cards but I don't find them particularly attractive.
**E91: Fake poses
**Colgan's: Too hard to display properly, too small, remind me of coin collecting, which I hated.