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12-31-2021, 08:36 AM
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Hi everyone!! Before I bought any T206's and was still in my learning stages of the set, I continued to revisit the idea of starting out with the Piedmont 350-460 Factory 25 subset. At the time, common PSA 4's were about $45. But the more I studied the set, the more I was turned off of that idea. Mainly because I could find the same common cards with other backs, like Polar Bear, Sovereign, and Old Mill for $50 to $60 in PSA 4 and American Beauty, EPDG, and Tolstoi for $30 to $45 in PSA 1 to PSA 3 grades. Plus, these other backs were more challenging but cost me basically the same amount of money at the time in 2010. Once realizing that, I started on my T206 collecting journey. If I was starting today, I would probably start with the Piedmont 350-460 Factory 25's because they are about the only things that are still in my purchasing price range.
I was reading the posts about the Wagners before I posted this. I saw it ending with the Heinie Wagner's as a joke but some really rare and difficult combo's were listed. I don't have a scan handy at the moment, but the Heinie Wagner - Bat on Right Shoulder with the Sweet Caporal 350-460 Factory 30 with the missing scroll overprint ("No Print"), would be my addition to that post. In 1977 when Ted said a Honus Wagner would cost around $4000-$6000, I would have been able to own only one of them, if I was focused on the set at that time. Unfortunately, I was only 4 years old in 1977 and mainly focused on rare coins. My mom told me that I started at 3 years old and would have been sooner if she got past the fear of me trying to eat the coins. But I was born being obsessed with numbers & math, and noticed at a very early age that my pennies had different numbers on them. I learned how to search and trade up very quickly, and also sell. It was normal to go to shows with $1000 on me for possible purchases. A few years later, I added a few other topics to my collecting hobby, including baseball cards. The collecting bug has been in my blood since day one of my life. Nobody knows where it came from. I had no family or friends that collected anything, except for one of my grandfathers that I didn't see much. He collected antique steam engines. Sorry, kinda went off topic. Maybe it's because another year is almost behind us. Happy New Years Eve everyone!!
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Ron - Uncle Nacki T206 Master Monster Front/Back Set Collector - www.youtube.com/unclenacki T206 Basic "The Monster" Set 514/524 T206 Advanced "Master Monster" Front/Back Set ??  ??/5258COMPLETE T206 BACK SUBSETS Old Mill Southern Leagues - Black Ink 48/48 Sweet Caporal 350-460 Factory 30 Full Color "No Prints" 28/28 NEAR COMPLETE T206 BACK SUBSETS Polar Bear 245/250 Sovereign 460 50/52 Sweet Caporal 150 Factory 649 Overprint 31/34 Piedmont 350 "Elite 11" 9/11 Last edited by Ronnie73; 12-31-2021 at 08:38 AM. 
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