T206 Cards With Provenance

[Runscott]

Originally Posted by t206hound

I just won a T206 card on eBay from the Lionel Carter Collection. Before bidding, I spent some time reading articles about the life-long collector, including the interview and letter between Mr. Carter and Paul (t206collector). This light reading about the legend made me really want to have a card from his collection as part of mine. I think I found the perfect match by picking up the SGC40 Mullaney.

Anyway, I know that there are cards from the Frank Nagy collection and there certainly must be others, right? I'd like to get a card from as many of these "provenancial" sets as possible and try to learn more about these old-timers who collected for the "love of the cards."

I want just one card from the 'McNall/Gretzky' collection

[Leon]

Originally Posted by Runscott

I want just one card from the 'McNall/Gretzky' collection

I just want the shavings from that collection.

[Runscott]

Originally Posted by Leon

I just want the shavings from that collection.

nice.

[Jay Wolt]

Erick, here are two T201's of the same players that Mr. Carter & Mr. Nagy both owned

[ethicsprof]

Jay, those are great cards!! congrats.

erick, I have collected a few from Lionel Carter's collection and a few from Nagy's collection and really like having some from the grandfathers of the hobby.
I think provenance in these cases is historically illuminating for the hobby.
I also have just a few cards from some of the 'finds' in the hobby which also
give me a feel for both the geography and history of the hobby.

all the best and good luck in your pursuit of provenance,
barry

[t206hound]

Originally Posted by ethicsprof

I also have just a few cards from some of the 'finds' in the hobby which also
give me a feel for both the geography and history of the hobby.

all the best and good luck in your pursuit of provenance,
barry

I didn't think much about that, but I have several cards from the Beantown Find (Bender, J. Collins, Joss, Matty, Mcgraw and Wheat to name a few). I guess there's no proof of provenance (on the flip), but now I think I'll get my documentation together and note these as "Beanies" in my collection.

At some point I'd like to add a Nagy (Jay, that's a sweet pair). A question, if I had a Harris Collection PSA card, would SGC cross it over and keep the provenance designation?

[ethicsprof]

if you have one of the beanies with the blue box-like stamp on the back, that gives you a bit of an identifier methinks.

best,
barry