Pick your theme, compile your scans, and post it!

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Posted By: Joann

Here's my entry. I'm sure the theme of women players is not that hard to figure out.

Think of a theme and post some scans that show it. It can be easy and visual, like all red cards, all NY Giants, all 19th C, all sunsets, all batting, all HOFer's, etc.

Or it can be less obvious and you can let us try to figure it out - such as all shortstops, all guys named Joe, all players from California. Whatever.

It's kind of like the recent threads to post Cabinets or PC's, but lets each poster pick the theme.

Here's mine. A few more over in the RPU thread that I won't repeat. Maybe mine was too easy and I should have picked something different? Oh well. Here it is.

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Posted By: Gil

These are some of the players in the set. Identify the theme.

Robin Yount .......... Fred Stanley ............ Ralph Garr
Craig Swan ........... Doug Rader .............. Chick Hafey
Rich Gossage ......... Mark Fydrich ............ Jay Bell


Need more?

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Posted By: Joann

Gil,

Is there a significance to the triplets, or is it just 9 different players?

J

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Posted By: Dan Bretta

Impressive stuff Joann....I think we all need to see that huge photo you just picked up though.

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Posted By: Joann

All right Gil. It has something to do with names or nicknames of birds. Or is that too obvious? We've got Goose, The Bird, Swan, Chick, Robin ...

If that's right, it would have been much harder to figure out if it were in scans - the printed names helped. Unless I'm way off base.

Dan - the huge cabinet is in the Pick Ups thread. I had to use the auction photo, which doesn't do it justice in terms of size. I might take it into work tomorrow and get a picture of it with a mini-bat in the photo so the size is more evident.

In the meantime - scans and themes.

Joann

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Posted By: Rob Dewolf

All of their names or nicknames have an ornithological theme?

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Posted By: Gil

Good work sleuths. It was the first cards which I obtained for my avian collection which I started around 2002 (and abandoned two years later).

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Posted By: Gil

And these were the first cards I obtained for the set which replaced the Avians - what is the theme of this one?

Pete Reiser 52T189
Jim Rivera 54T34
Gus Bell 52T170
Pete Runnels 52T2
Billy Martin 52T175

It has nothing to do with the cards nor the years involved here.


Ok, you are sick of this crap already, I guess.
This one is the same idea as the other one: nicknames.
These sets are good at shows where a dealer doesn't have anything you want so you shuffle through his junk box and come up with a couple of unimportant beaters for your "set". It is walking away with something!
These nicknames are ones that most people think are the player's actual name.

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Posted By: Anonymous

Gil, how could you leave out Chicken Hawks? : )

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Posted By: JimB

Joann,
Those are awesome. I don't think I have ever seen any of those.
Thanks,
JimB

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Posted By: Ed McCollum

another chance for me to share the twist my collection has taken.

Back in May, I gave up hope of ever having a complete set of t206s, but wasn't ready to give up on the t206s in general. Following some advice from the board, I decided to choose one aspect of the set and persue that. I chose cards that had the rubber stamp on the back from Howe McCormick. At the time, I had two in my collection of about 200 cards, and those had come 13 years apart. So I sold the rest of my collection and have used those funds to get 24 stamped cards in six months.

Thanks go to a lot of people who have either sold or allowed me to work out trades for cards they had in their collection (that would include Chuck, Frank, Judson, Tom and Barry). And I would appreciate hearing from anyone who has some of these cards in their collection, whether they want to sell to me (which would be my first choice) or if they just would let me know what they have. I know I've missed a Waddell, a J.J. Clark, a Willis, a Warhop and a Moran from eBay just before I started the quest. And the cards I've gotten have now come from 17 different people or businesses in 14 different states.

I don't have any idea how many cards Howe might have had, or what they might have been. And one good "major star" could wipe out the PayPal account. But right now, I have an excuse to look at every t206 on eBay and on several dealer sites, and know exactly what I'm looking for.

If public records I've found are for the right Howe McCormick, he was born in 1895, served in WWI, married soon after, had one daughter and passed away in 1976. His daughter appears never to have married and she passed away in 2005, leaving no heirs. So I'm tracking down the cards he owned and finding out how far they've scattered in the nearly 100 years since. Let me know of any you know of. Thanks.

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Posted By: Dan Bretta

Ed, that is a great way to collect. It's like you're bringing the family back together. Do you have any theories on why he stamped his cards?

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Posted By: Ed McCollum

and both are pretty lame.

1. He would have been only 14 when the cards first came out. Maybe it was a way of marking what was his in the family if he had any brothers or sisters. However, I've not been able to find any records of siblings.

2. He actually acquired them later, and used them as business cards. This theory is really thin, as I've only been able to find one card he had a multiple of, and dang it, I didn't get the other one in time.

A lot of the cards I got at first had a tape mark in almost the same place on the back. But two or three of the last ones I've gotten have marks at the card top and bottom, like maybe there was a rubber band put around them, and left for quite a while. I've also wondered why the rubber stamp is upside down on all the Piedmonts, and at the same angle. Was he trying to follow the angle of the artwork on the ad?

The more I find, the more questions I have. Thanks for asking, Dan.

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Posted By: Dan Bretta

I have one theory on why some of the old tobacco cards are stamped and this came up when I read an old letter from Jefferson Burdick to Lionel Carter. I think that some of the old collectors stamped the cards because when they wanted to do trading they would sometimes just ship off their whole collection of T206 extras (or whatever cards) to the other guy and they would stamp them so the other guy wouldn't get them mixed with his cards.

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Posted By: Frank Wakefield

I think Dan has something there with the stamping thing... there can be other reasons, but that is a good one. I can see that in that day putting a mark on the back was not such a big deal.

And I am honored to have helped Ed get a card he needs. Right now I have 2 trades going. Trading cards is actually a bit more fun than buying them. I feel a little good about helping someone toward their goal, and I get a card I kinda want. It is like digging through a junk drawer, pulling out some junk that no longer excites you, and swapping it for some new junk that better suits the drawer.

I keep thinking that some day a bunch of us could list a few cards we want, and some we're willing to swap, then crunch that down and figure it out to see if a dozen or so of us couldn't swap some cards around to everyone's satisfaction.

Frank W.

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Posted By: Jason L

a neat hunt, to be sure.
And I have to say, learning from my own historical searches, there is alot of fun in the paths and journey taken.

So I am dying to ask, because I can no longer suppress my curiousity and silliness: When you are done (if you can ever know that)...will you stamp them with your own brand!?!??!

"Reassembled by Ed"


Now THAT would be awesome!
because in another 100 years, someone will be possessed to learn about YOU!

you're targeted search is a very cool idea. Good luck with it!

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Posted By: Ted Zanidakis

Thanks for displaying your T206 "specialty" set. You and I have talked about these before. But, I'm curious; where did Howe McCormick
live when he was 14 years old and collecting these T206's ?

I ask this since the majority of them are Piedmont's and Hindu's. My 1st guess would be VA, NC or SC ?

Thanks, and I'll keep searching for these in my travels

TED Z

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Posted By: Ed McCollum

The birth record, marriage license and death certificate were all from just two counties in Florida. My guess is, other than service in WWI, he must not have ventured very far from the Gainesville, FL area. His cards have travelled much further than he did.