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Originally Posted by packs
You've created this beast yourselves and I hope you're all happy now.
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Is that the most intelligent sarcastic comment you could come up with?
These cards were listed in the catalogs long before " the crazy T206 crowd
that analyzes everything" grew. The analysis of cards like this is what
has proven they are nothing more than a print defect.
I have many cards that I've purchased for research purposes that I know
I'm probably going to lose money on when I sell them and I knew that
when I bought them.
I started collecting T206 cards on a small scale 13 years ago, there were small
shows in our area and while there may have been a handful of pre war cards at some of them I never noticed.
Then I went to a national and I was in awe of how many cards there were that were close to or over 100 years old. One
of the sellers had boxes full of T206 cards (I think they were $8-$12) so I
purchased one and I couldn't get over how cool it was to own a card that old
for close to the price of a pack of new cards.
The same thing drives me in the research I do, I think it's cool to
try and figure out how they were printed over 100 years ago and value has
absolutely nothing to do with it.
I continued collecting them moderately for ten years and one day Tim Cathey
directed me here. Because of the amount of comments similar to yours I wouldn't do the same.