Portland Maine Hoard 1400+ T-206 Cards

[4815162342]

Originally Posted by Saco River Auction

... numerous varieties of backs to include American Beauty, Sovereign, Hindu, Sweet Caporal, El Principe De Gales, Piedmont, Polar bear, Tolstoi ...

Were all of those brands available in NY?

[2dueces]

Originally Posted by 4815162342

Were all of those brands available in NY?

And as a smoker wouldn't you find a brand you liked and stick with it? I don't think one person smoked all those. More likely he accumlated off brands and smoked just one. I could be wrong. Ok, I'm usually wrong.

[Bocabirdman]

Originally Posted by 2dueces

And as a smoker wouldn't you find a brand you liked and stick with it? I don't think one person smoked all those. More likely he accumlated off brands and smoked just one. I could be wrong. Ok, I'm usually wrong.

I tend to agree but I could see where delivery scheduling might find a mom n' pop shop out of one or more brands requiring a smoker to settle for another. This was 1909-1911, after all.

[Paul S]

My grandfather smoked a pipe. Darn!

[gregr2]

WOW, that is one sweet find!!

[mrvster]

Any Printer's scraps??? I doubt it if it came from one guy buying packs, but you never know

[Donscards]

Troy Great Find---get those big boys graded so we can do some bidding---I hear there were around 10 Ty Cobbs---I can imagine with 1400 cards, there should be some nice scarce backs. Good Luck, Don

[Marckus99]

1400?
Pretty rare cards.