t206 back type frequency

[mrvster]

Tim,

Extemely well said......statistics get skewed, individual collections can influence the scarcity perceptions, and there exists so many more variables...
i beleive real world experience carries the most weight in relative terms....

Tony,

basicically i beleive the middle of the list will always be debated and updated due to future hopeful finds.....

i collect the freaks/printer scrap, but have real world collecting experience(mostly ebay for the last 12 years or so), and have followed "what is availabe" thru ebay searches....although i don't even own a uzit or drum, i have seen more drums for sale than uzits, but who know who has how many tucked away???....a collector who is advanced and not so vocal, could be "hoarding" or "amassing" the rarer backs like lenox, drum and we won't know until they die or they are sold at estate sales!!.....hopefully they won't get buried with them!!! artificial scarcity...



Tim, Jim, Brian , Art M. , Craig, John, Scot, and the rest are really the "braintrust" and do have the most collector experience when it comes to this set and scarcity....their knowledge, experience and passion, combined with the correlating data and statistics, should give us a better understanding of the rarirty....i have just started to focus collecting the rarer backs since my cards are tuf 2 find......

my humble knowledge and experience is always up for debate



Peace

JV

[scottglevy]

Way back when collecting was more about the time (not the money) that you had -- (think roughly 25 years ago for me), my dad and I used to buy lots of raw cards from people who were generally unconcerned about backs. I can say that I've gotten just about every single type of back in the roughly 2000 raw cards that I've been through without even trying. The two exceptions from the 'major varieties' list for us were Drum and Broadleaf 460. We had to actively seek those two out to buy 'em. I should add that I also never got a random brown Lenox or brown old mill. Oddly enough I did find 4 uzits.

Not really sure what the point of my post is ... other than to remember the good 'ol days of collecting.

Best,
Scott

[tonyo]

Originally Posted by mrvster

.their knowledge, experience and passion, combined with the correlating data and statistics,

The correlating data and statistics is what I'd like to take a gander at......

Just a snapshot of where we are today. Not asking for certainties or definates.

I understand there are variables involved, that one survey of 20,000 cards will probably yield slightly different results than the 20,000 before and the 20,000 after......depending on who what when where.

Just wondering if the "Back Distribution Data" listed in section VIII of Scot's Inside t206 has changed much ............. based on what is known today.

[tonyo]

Originally Posted by scottglevy

Not really sure what the point of my post is ... other than to remember the good 'ol days of collecting.

Best,
Scott

That would've been great .....25 years ago I was buying boxes of 86 Donruss. Ugh