Opinions welcomed and requested on the number of t206 Cobbs in existence.

[barrysloate]

12,000 seems high...I'll guess half that number, or 6000. It is based on nothing scientific.

[tedzan]

PAUL M

With all due respect....I have read and re-read Scot's book several times....and, have contributed to it.

Now, you cite this in your above comments......
" the surviving quantity of a typical 350-only subject "

Scot was specifically referring to his estimate of the surviving quantities of the Demmitt & O'Hara (St Louis vars.),
which are in the 350-only subject Series. He did not refer to any of the Cobb's.

And as you know, none of the four Cobb's are in the 350-only Series. For those who aren't sure......
The Green and Bat On Cobb's are in the 150/350 Series.
And, the Red and Bat Off Cobb's are in the 350/460 Series.

Furthermore, the Red Cobb leads the "T206 pack" with at least 24 different T-backs; therefore, any attempt to
extrapolate how many of this Cobb are available by using normal T206 estimates is a virtually impossible task.
This T206 Subject is in a class of its own.


TED Z

[T206Collector]

...baseball card populations that can't be proven one way or the other. But it is fun to guesstimate.

Given that you are willing to put a 2:1 ratio down for Red:Green Cobbs, why wouldn't you also try to extrapolate total population?

"With all due respect....I have read and re-read Scot's book several times....and, have contributed to it."

Also, if it is a measure of competency here, I have read, re-read, re-re-read and contributed to Scot's book as well. I also sent him $25.00 when he first came out with it because I felt like I shouldn't get such a cool book for free.

[FrankWakefield]

Speculation from all of us, no way to ever know... but general guesses based on our experience would have some of us thinking there are tens of thousands of Cobb T206s, not hundreds, but tens. I'd think the very low tens... And when you add up all of the pop reports on the slabbed ones it is a certainty that there are fewer slabbed Cobbs out there than the numbers suggest. Some have been broken out and remain that way, some have been reslabbed. That renders those hard population report numbers inaccurate.

[fkw]

Ive always heard and thought a good guess is about 2,000-3,000 of ea. card out there. The "green" and "bat on" would be in the 2,000 range and the "red" and "bat off" in the 3,000 range IMO

This is not fact just a guess based on an estimate that there are about 1,000,000 T206 cards surviving today.

[drc]

I'd heard the 2000 number before.

[jbbama]

I appreciate all the ideas and speculation (that's what it is) about the Cobbs, there are no wrong answers just opinions. Thanks to all who have responded.