T206 Collecting in 1909

[uniship]

that story is INCREDIBLE! what are the odds? any idea who the card is behind the pasted picture of honus?

[bbcard1]

Originally Posted by uniship

that story is INCREDIBLE! what are the odds? any idea who the card is behind the pasted picture of honus?

None whatsoever, so I am assuming it is Honus Wagner.

[brianp-beme]

Originally Posted by bbcard1

None whatsoever, so I am assuming it is Honus Wagner.

Cool card, and of course that is what I would assume as well. It just makes sense that a kid would want a Honus action shot over his boring portrait.

Brian

[robw1959]

Originally Posted by bbcard1

None whatsoever, so I am assuming it is Honus Wagner.

In that case, it can't be the same card that the old man told you about because his Wagner picture was pasted to the back. So the ball player on front would still be visible.

[brianp-beme]

Originally Posted by robw1959

In that case, it can't be the same card that the old man told you about because his Wagner picture was pasted to the back. So the ball player on front would still be visible.

I might be mistaken, but I think Todd meant that this Honus action shot was pasted on the front of a card with a Piedmont back.

Brian (sometimes known to be occasionally mistakenly mistaken on occasion)

[Yankees1964]

Love this story. I wish our collections could talk. I wonder where they have been. As a kid in the early 70's flipping cards, I remember how much it would suck to come home from school and have lost cards and how good it felt to come home with a haul.

Must also have been the same for the kid waiting outside the store hoping to get a Cobb or a Matty and getting a Karger or Byrne!

[bbcard1]

Originally Posted by brianp-beme

I might be mistaken, but I think Todd meant that this Honus action shot was pasted on the front of a card with a Piedmont back.

Brian (sometimes known to be occasionally mistakenly mistaken on occasion)

That is a correct interpretation!

[teza11]

This has probably been shown before. 1880's Duke tobacco card illustrating that kids did not wait until 1909 to demand cards from cigarette consumers.

Jeff

[chriskim]

u nailed it Jeff! thx for sharing!