T206 backs in scarcity order

[cfc1909]

1. Old Mill brown
2. Lenox brown
3. Broad Leaf 460
4. Uzit
5. Drum
6. Hindu red
7. Lenox black
8. American Beauty 460
9. Broad Leaf 350
10. Blank -might want to take this one off the list all together
11. Carolina Brights
12. Hindu brown
13. American Beauty 350 no frame
14. Sovereign 460-(the six super prints are very difficult with this back)
15. Cycle 460
16. Piedmont 350-460 factory 42
17. Tolstoi
18. Sweet Caporal 350-460 factory 25
19. EPDG
20. American Beauty 350 frame
21. Sovereign 350 apple green -350-460 series cards only (66 cards)
22. Sweet Caporal 350-460 factory 42
23. Cycle 350
24. Old Mill south
25. Sovereign 150
26. Sweet Caporal 150 factory 649 overprint
27. Sweet Caporal 350-460 factory 42 scroll
28. Old Mill
29. Polar Bear
30. Sovereign 350 series forest green
31. Sweet Caporal 150 factory 25
32. Sweet Caporal 350-460 factory 30
33. Sweet Caporal 150 factory 30
34. Piedmont 150 factory 25
35. Piedmont 350-460 factory 25
36. Sweet Caporal 350 factory 25
37. Sweet Caporal 350 factory 30
38. Piedmont 350 factory 25

ok-I switched Drum and Uzit-because of the 70 Drums in the recent finds
also switched AB 460 and BL 350 -BL 350 has alot more possibilites because of the series it is in

still willing to listen to any other possible changes-and remember this list will vary for each collectors expirience-this one is just my expirience collecting 206 tough backs
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[Jantz]

Jim

Great info and thanks for posting it

Hope you've been able to get out and wet a line

Bass season began for me on Saturday

Jantz

[teetwoohsix]

Interesting how the Red Cobb Sweet Cap 460 Factory 42 & 42 overprint,Sweet Cap 460 Factory 25,and Sweet Cap 350 Factory 25 prove to be tougher than the Red Cobb Tolstoi and Red Cobb Old Mill.

I hope to see more of the scarcity list for the other 5 super prints,this is fascinating to me.

Great work as usual Ted Z!!!Look forward to more!!

Also,great work Jim R.-will refer to the latest list,for I am one who is trying to obtain at least one of each back type for my collection.

Thanks guys!!!

Sincerely,Clayton

[Sterling Sports Auctions]

I think the list is pretty good except the placement of the AB 460. The 10 years I have been buying I have obtained many more AB 460s compared to Broadleaf and I always felt the AB 460 and Cycle 460 were equivalent. For a while I pursued both but couldn't afford to do both. My quest for the Cycle 460s has really hit a major slow down. I rarely see any on ebay and when I have put up a BST for them I only get one or 2 responses.

Has the supply of tougher backs dried up because everyone is hanging on to them?

I don't remember if Scot Reader had a list, if he did was it comparable to Jim's?

Lee

[cfc1909]

great to have your input Lee, I know you have chased these backs for some time. I too have questions about AB 460 and BL 350 and had them reversed in the beginning and still may change it back but as my post says it is very debatable.

This list is way more accurate then the one used by collectors, even myself in the past.

[tedzan]

Regarding your......
" Interesting how the Red Cobb Sweet Cap 460 Factory 42 & 42 overprint,Sweet Cap 460 Factory 25,and
Sweet Cap 350 Factory 25 prove to be tougher than the Red Cobb Tolstoi and Red Cobb Old Mill. "

That's how the numbers came out in the survey. Although, I'm inclined to think that the SWEET CAP 350,
Factory 25 is not as tough, as say a TOLSTOI.


TED Z

[scottglevy]

Jim,

I think that this is the best (most accurate) listing of back types. I agree with everything that has been written with one significant exception. I do not believe that AB 460 is nearly as tough as you rank it. Back in the 1980s when my dad and I purchased significant lots (or even entire sets) of T206 cards and before people really cared much about backs, we would always find at least one (many times 2 or 3) AB 460 in the collection. While we would also find at least one hindu (usually more).... other cards like CB and certainly Broadleaf were not always part of the collection.

My opinion based solely on my personal collecting experience is that AB 460 should appear as rarer than Hindu but not as rare as CB.

Regards,
Scott