22 t206 cards for sale or trade

[brianp-beme]

Looking at the cards my first thought was that they were possibly (and mostly) trimmed...a good portion of them look small and just too perfect. I have a Willetts that also has an angular cut and nice corners, but you can see that mine has substantially, and probably unnaturally, larger borders.

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I could be completely wrong about all this. From my perspective the fact that they came from Teletrade made no difference, as I purchased from them and did not have any trimming issues. However, I was/am into lower condition cards, so something like these real nice looking examples would never have been something I went after (My Willetts probably came in a group lot).

It would be nice to know what T206'ers have to say about them. And I appreciate a seller looking out for their customers...kudos!

Brian

[doug.goodman]

Originally Posted by brianp-beme

And I appreciate a seller looking out for their customers...kudos!

Brian

Thank you.

The thing is I don't really have a seller mentality because I am not really a seller, I am way more of a buyer.

I only sell things because I have a spare, or in this instance have something that doesn't interest me and I would prefer somebody own it who would enjoy it, OR because I would REALLY like to thin the herd, (anybody want 5000 scored programs? Or 60 years of The Sporting News? hahaha).

[doug.goodman]

I have now responded to all of the offers I have received by telling people that I do not know what price(s) I want and to read my updated post.

There are 22 pretty nice looking 113+ year old pictures of old baseball players. Are all, or some, or none of them trimmed? I don't know.

As an old man in reading glasses eyes who needed to look at enlarged scans to read the names (and notice the Dunn ghost print) I haven't bothered taking them out of the sheets.

Are they worth an average of $135 each (as $3k offer guy thought before I told him to read the update, I don't know what he thinks now) or does the possibility of them being trimmed make them worthless? I again don't know.

But, if the slab of the most famous trimmed card in the world is worth whatever it's worth to the people who choose to ignore reality (and let's all be honest, it's the slab that holds that value, not the the actual card) then I see nothing wrong with these cards being worth an average of $135 each (plus of course the cost of an "authentic" slab.

But maybe I'm wrong.

I actually kind of enjoy the 22 of them now.

Doug

[Kevin]

Enjoy them, Doug.

[doug.goodman]

Originally Posted by Kevin

Enjoy them, Doug.

Thank you, but I didn't enjoy the Piedmonts or Schmidt for long, they are now sold.

Updated scans of remaining cards with backs matched to fronts.

Offers still encouraged.

Thank you for the various advice and kind words from everybody.

Doug