What's your Monster number?

[g_vezina_c55]

Originally Posted by bbcard1

518. 519 is in sight, but 520 may take a little time.

who is your 520 ?

[bbcard1]

Originally Posted by g_vezina_c55

who is your 520 ?

O'hara St. L. There are a couple of us looking for one and I know if I just pull the trigger I can buy one (there are a couple albeit overpriced ones on ebay). It's all part of the ride...I expect i'll pick one up by the national.

My set is a general mess with lots of "cards with character." My first goal is to get the spaces filled and then start upgrading with an eventual goal of having a set in good-vg condition. I see it as a lifetime thing, an adventure to enjoy and I hope to enjoy the upgrading process as much as I have enjoyed the building process.

The things I have most enjoyed collecting are friends. I would have probably never met Ted Z, Mac Webber, Marc Delpercio and many others were it not for this process.

This weekend, I plan to spend a couple of hours with my son going through the set, making sure I didn't miss a common somewhere (in a set this size it happens) and making a list of my hideous two dozen, the most immediate and profound beaters.

[frankbmd]

Originally Posted by bbcard1

My set is a general mess with lots of "cards with character." My first goal is to get the spaces filled and then start upgrading with an eventual goal of having a set in good-vg condition. I see it as a lifetime thing, an adventure to enjoy and I hope to enjoy the upgrading process as much as I have enjoyed the building process.

I too find it strange how attractive the beaters become as you near the end of your journey. Cards I wouldn't have looked at several years ago are now jewels that I covet. My next card that I covet looks like a real dog. See update.

Update: I picked up this one from the kitchen floor. Great Ebay photo. See below.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/221009221169...84.m1423.l2649

[g_vezina_c55]

Originally Posted by bbcard1

O'hara St. L. There are a couple of us looking for one and I know if I just pull the trigger I can buy one (there are a couple albeit overpriced ones on ebay). It's all part of the ride...I expect i'll pick one up by the national.

My set is a general mess with lots of "cards with character." My first goal is to get the spaces filled and then start upgrading with an eventual goal of having a set in good-vg condition. I see it as a lifetime thing, an adventure to enjoy and I hope to enjoy the upgrading process as much as I have enjoyed the building process.

The things I have most enjoyed collecting are friends. I would have probably never met Ted Z, Mac Webber, Marc Delpercio and many others were it not for this process.

This weekend, I plan to spend a couple of hours with my son going through the set, making sure I didn't miss a common somewhere (in a set this size it happens) and making a list of my hideous two dozen, the most immediate and profound beaters.

Verry interesting !

How long it take to build your set ?

It is verry nice to meet other collector ! it will not happen to me i live in canada so no baseball card show here in canada.

[bbcard1]

I'll go into how I build my set in more depth in a couple years, but here are the keys:

1) I bought my first T206 in the early 70s from Card Collector's Company. It was a Snodgrass batting.

2) I bought a little over 100 t206s for $100 in the early 80s. it included minor hall of famers and a few southern leaguers. Average condition was fair.

3) I started working on a set of hall of famers which happened to land me with a lot of T206s...including Johnson, Brown, Matty x 2.

4) I owned a shop in the early 90s. Had no intention of building a set, but worked on it some. Picked up a nice red cobb then.

5) About three years ago, I started working on a mini-monster, with the intent of getting one pose of each player represented. I was probably around 250 at the time.

6) Got into it and decided what the heck. Marc Delpercio was a very good traded. I got a couple of the variations and just decided to go for the 518.

7) a large deal...the only card I really, really regret parting with in this process (T206 AB Gandil that was a beauty) with Ted Z got a large number of the remainder knocked off...it was one of those trades that was good for both parties...

8) A trade with Chris Buckler for a trimmed Demmitt made me decide to go for the 520.

9) Stayed focused. Other than my Marshall University stuff, I have not bought much besides T206s on my want list for the past two years.I have two sets "on deck" but I think I will be working on my T206s for life.

Pretty much gets me to where I am...

[g_vezina_c55]

verry interesting , so you work on this set since the 70's .... before my birth lol

It is a long way travel to build a t206 set, in the last time i bought many cards but i will probably take a little brake in the nexts months.. pderhaps buy a couple t206 a month but no major purchase until the end of the year....

I will probably collect T206 for the rest of my life too...

[Runscott]

Originally Posted by g_vezina_c55

...will probably take a little brake in the nexts months..

Nice double-entendre

I always find it interesting to hear how a collector has gone about building his T206 set. The T206 nay-sayers have valid points, but there are so many interesting ways to go about building this set, and other than those who are building 'by flip number', I haven't seen two people yet who have gone about it the same way. And once you have attained your magic number, you can then replace cards to add additional nuances (upgrade, tough backs, etc.)

[g_vezina_c55]

For this year, my magic number is 25%. I would like to have 25% (131 cards) of the 522 cards set by the end of 2012.