What's your reason for collecting T206

[Orions father]

I do not collect them anymore but I used to collect The New York Highlanders with as many backs possible, sold this collection a few years ago. As to why, just had a wild hair.
http://s168.photobucket.com/albums/u...20Highlanders/

[novakjr]

I don't specifically collect t206's. If I find a pre-20's beater under $10, I'll usually pick it up. However, when it comes to pre-20's beaters under $10, the majority of them are t206s.. Also, when it comes to my HOF collection, for some players, a beater t206 is about as low-budget as you can get.

[brianp-beme]

Not only because of the nice artwork seen on the majority of cards in the set, but also because it is such a large set and the fact that they are incredibly unavoidable when searching for Pre-WW2 cards...you just bump into them all the time. Sooner or later you end up buying some.

Brian

[bbcard1]

Lots of reasons.

The art is very good and is varied.

The sets is very large and is comprised of virtually all of the best players of the deadball era.

It is attainable but not too attainable. Even though I am down to about 50, I have a decent chance of picking up a couple I need every week or two.

I see it as my lifetime set. I hope to complete it in p-f this year, with the O'Hara variation (along with the big 4, of course) being the only real obstacle, provided my cashflow holds out. I intend to spend the rest of my life upgrading it as the opportunity presents itself starting with the worst, but occasionally buying lots of cards and using the upgrading lots and selling or trading the dupes. It is what I am concentrating on this year.

I have a low grade Delong set on deck along with a high grade 1961 Topps.

[Rob D.]

Never got to sit at the "cool" lunch table in high school.

[HRBAKER]

Really collect them only tangentially as an A's team set collector and a HOF type collector. Sold many of the HOfers off as I migrated to more obscure issues over time.

Rob, the Chess Club will do it to you everytime!

[Cardboard Junkie]

The T206s, 34 goudeys, 52Topps, 51Bowmans, 72Topps, oops thats 5 Oh yeah and I have a nice HOF set going of all diff types, none the same issue, oh yeah and cabinet cards and I forgot to mention my regional issues and................oh forget it!

But the t206s have me right now, it's like once you hook a Billfish everything else is "bait" The artwork, the legends, the challenge, the discoveries. The blood sweat and tears, the delights the disasters.