Update on The Rudy Strejc Collection

[JSteele]

UPDATE: 2/4/2013 - The entire Rudy Strejc Collection has been sold. There are 4 Zeenuts and 1 Pacific Coast Biscuit that didn't make it into the LOTG auction that closed on 2/3/2013. These items will be available in the NEXT LOTG auction, along with a large grouping of "Wings" cards. ~jds

Greetings,

I think it was about one month ago I introduced myself and a collection of ephemera inherited by my father that was built by my "great" cousin Rudy Strejc. I've been working hard to catalog and scan everything as our intention is to liquidate the entire collection.

I've just completed very high resolution scans and a checklist of the T206 cards and I wanted to share them with this board! I don't have the "price" column populated yet, but if you see something you're interested in, I'll respond to all offers.

If you check out the photos, you'll see that EVERY card in the T206 collection has been trimmed on either the top or bottom edge. We don't know for certain, but believe this happened in the early 1970's when Rudy Strejc was moved into a rest home. We believe Rudy's sister was packing the cards into plastic sleeves for storage and found they wouldn't fit "two up" unless slightly trimmed.

It's too bad, because otherwise there are many cards that are in pretty good shape. There are 3 or 4 cards with faint but discernible "transfers". The backs distribution in the T206 is: 78 with Old Mill, 12 with El Principe De Gales, and 10 with Sweet Caporal. We even have 3 cards that are in the "unconfirmed back" category.

There are still over 200 T212 Obak to sort through, a handful of T74 and T205, Zeenuts, Pacific Coast Biscuits and a wide variety of non-sports subjects.

I hope you take a few minutes to check out the updated site and photos:

Web Site: http://strejc-collection.com
High Resolution Photos on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/strejc-collection/
T206 Google Spreadsheet Checklist

Here is an example of trimmed, but otherwise presentable cards, and look at the faint "Old Mill" transfer on the Mordecai Brown card. The "Black Cap" Matty has a VERY faint transfer as well.



Respectfully,