T218 Tolstoi Backs

[Exhibitman]

RBrown,Brad:

T220:



T218:

[Exhibitman]

There was a Tolstoi thread some time ago here where we went into the issues of the T218s:

http://www.net54baseball.com/showthr...t=t218+tolstoi

[BradH]

Yes - sorry - I didn't pay close attention to the names on RBrown's list. I was just quickly counting all the different ones without looking at the details.

To be clear - I really only collect the T218s and when I was saying my experience with the ratio of Tolstoi backs to Hassan and Mecca, I was speaking strictly about the T218s.

Maybe my numbers are way off, but I think the 1% rule is too high. It seems to be a lot less than that to me.

[butcher354435]

Brad, I would agree, 1% is on the high side. What it actually is... we will never know but my opinion would be in 1:300-400 range.

[Exhibitman]

Originally Posted by butcher354435

Brad, I would agree, 1% is on the high side. What it actually is... we will never know but my opinion would be in 1:300-400 range.

Sounds about right to me. Not impossible but very, very tough to find especially if you're looking for one or two guys. Most of the multicard groups I've run across have been from original collections where the seller didn't know quite what they had. I did have one fun find at a National a few years ago. I was going through a dealer's table that was mostly boxes of unsorted 1950s-1970s Topps and Bowman cards and I stumbled across a T218 Tolstoi in the 1st box. Since I had the time and had seen one, I went through the rest of the entire table. Found another in a different box. I picked a bunch of postwar cards for my collection too but those were the highlights.