Post your favorite T205

[CW]

Great idea for a thread, Eric, and I like your choice. The color combo on the A's cards looks really nice within the T205 set. The blue background and the gold borders just enhance the eye appeal.

Other than Mr. Cobb's card, my favorite T205 is Home Run Baker's.

[pete zouras]

[dog*dirt]

I really like the Chicago American cards myself, especially the Duffy and Blackburne.

[CW]

Just realized something after looking at all the Cobb cards posted... awhile back, someone posted a comment (more of a criticism) about the Cobb card having no neck. For some reason it just clicked that what we're likely seeing is the artist's attempt to make it look like Cobb has his collar pulled all the way up, similar to what we see on the T206 Cobb bat off card.

Such a classic card, the T205 Cobb...

I forgot about the Zach Wheat card (nice copies, guys). What a cool, stoic pose.

[wonkaticket]

I always kind of liked the Ball pose.

[MVSNYC]

John- that's a creepy pose

I've always loved the Nat'l league cards, much more so than the Amer. league examples...

[ullmandds]

John...thats a pretty fancy stamp on the back...any significance?

[rhettyeakley]

Originally Posted by wonkaticket

I always kind of liked the Ball pose.

John, not sure if you are aware or not but that fancy little back stamp is actually VERY significant. It was Jefferson Burdick's personal stamp and is found on many of the cards that were once part of his collection (likely these were then traded to hobby friends as they were not part of his Metropolitan Museum donation.) Here is a T28 Aeroplane Series that has his personal stamps on back that I own that has the same stamp you have along with his other "Jeff B" stamp (mine was picked up in a large fresh to the hobby T-collection a few years back from a former early hobbiest)...

[CW]

Whoa. Very interesting, Rhett!

[Ease]

Originally Posted by rhettyeakley

John, not sure if you are aware or not but that fancy little back stamp is actually VERY significant. It was Jefferson Burdick's personal stamp and is found on many of the cards that were once part of his collection (likely these were then traded to hobby friends as they were not part of his Metropolitan Museum donation.) Here is a T28 Aeroplane Series that has his personal stamps on back that I own that has the same stamp you have along with his other "Jeff B" stamp (mine was picked up in a large fresh to the hobby T-collection a few years back from a former early hobbiest)

John, your collection gets a little more legendary every day. Very cool.

[T206Collector]

Originally Posted by wonkaticket

I always kind of liked the Ball pose.

That stamp is also on the Jack Johnson below. Definitely Burdick.

[T206Collector]

My favorite T205, and a rare instance of a T205 image outclassing the T206 image of the same subject. (I even prefer this to my signed T206 Blackburne!)

[frankbmd]

higher grade cards of players named Frank (or FranX)