T207

[Cozumeleno]

To answer your questions:

1. I do not collect them exclusively but am mostly only collecting T205, T206, and T207 at this point along with E90-1s.

2. I prefer almost everything ungraded with the exception of the bigger cards. I buy slabbed cards but crack them open almost all of the time, keeping the flips.

3. I am working on a full T207 set and am a little more than 40% complete.

4. Almost entirely low-grade cards for me in Poor-Good condition. I do have a few others a little higher that were graded 3-5, but nothing higher than that. I'd say 80% of my T207 cards are P-G. After that, I plan to begin upgrading some of the lower-grade cards.

Best of luck with however you approach it - I think it's a nice set.

[vintagebaseballcardguy]

I got my first T207 in the mail today! I didn't want to put this in the May pick ups up against all of the awesome items there, but I am very happy with it nonetheless. I didn't notice when I bought it, but it is a Factory 606 (assumed it was 240). I have read about the gloss of these cards but was still really surprised something this old was glossy. Anyway, I plan on buying more.

[uffda51]

I put this set together between about 2000-2007. I no longer have it. Some VERY tough cards in the set. Tim Newcomb's article provided the best information on the set.

http://imageevent.com/uffda51/t207he...mfeuc6x1.cat_s

[Yoda]

I have collected and dealer-dealt a lot of T207's over the years and, like many, have mixed emotions about the set. As many have indicated, where are the stars? the Cobb, Nap, Matty, Cyrus etc.; yet there are some pure cards there, such as the Jack Barry, truly a great baseball card. There is one card, however, that makes me shudder, the Beals Becker, which I always think of as" Dracula on Deck". Hope I don't dream about him tonight.

[Luke]

Nice to see another collector getting into T207s!

I love this set, but I have a love/hate thing going on within it. I absolutely love some of the poses in the set, I hate that I don't like a significant amount of the poses. This is my 2nd favorite set behind T206, but I don't think I'll ever go for the entire set because I find so many of the cards unappealing. Which is a shame because some of the most beautiful tobacco cards ever produced came from this set.

So, for now I am just collecting poses that I like without any real focus. I like Napoleon backs the most, but I am pretty happy just collecting fronts for this set.

One thing I love about grading on T207s is that you can find some 2s and 3s that are cheap, but present like VGEX copies. When T207s crease, it can be pretty brutal on the eye appeal, but sometimes they just get a bend on the front and a wrinkle on the back. I have a bunch of 2s and 3s with bends that look VGEX or better and you can only see the bend at the right angle when light bounces off of it.

Here are some of my favorites:

[vintagebaseballcardguy]

Originally Posted by LukeLyon

Nice to see another collector getting into T207s!

I love this set, but I have a love/hate thing going on within it. I absolutely love some of the poses in the set, I hate that I don't like a significant amount of the poses. This is my 2nd favorite set behind T206, but I don't think I'll ever go for the entire set because I find so many of the cards unappealing. Which is a shame because some of the most beautiful tobacco cards ever produced came from this set.

So, for now I am just collecting poses that I like without any real focus. I like Napoleon backs the most, but I am pretty happy just collecting fronts for this set.

One thing I love about grading on T207s is that you can find some 2s and 3s that are cheap, but present like VGEX copies. When T207s crease, it can be pretty brutal on the eye appeal, but sometimes they just get a bend on the front and a wrinkle on the back. I have a bunch of 2s and 3s with bends that look VGEX or better and you can only see the bend at the right angle when light bounces off of it.

Here are some of my favorites:

Luke, I am coming to similar conclusions about T207. I love the overall look, but I doubt I will ever complete an entire set. There are simply some of the cards that I won't spend $ on. However, I am seeing many T207s that will join my collection. I have no problem with the brown at all. It is some of the art work that I personally don't care for.

I also like T206 and have ventured in a little but backed away quickly because I was overwhelmed. To counter that, I think I will also just pick poses/players that I particularly like out of that set as well and not try to do everything.

Between cherry picking T207 and T206, I should be able to pick up some nice stuff.

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[Yoda]

Luke, that T207 Hooper with the Napoleon reverse is one fantastic card. I wonder how many collectors realize how rare that front and back combination is? I never have seen one before. Great snag. John