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How many active collectors
Posted By: Robert
I know that there are people entering into the hobby all the time but if you whre to make a guess how many active collectors are out there? Is it in the hundreds, thousands??? Also is there any type of guess or fact on how many t206's of a particular player are in circulation? For example are there 1000 red Cobbs, 10,000 any idea of the quantities of each card? I know the rare ones so please don't post those. |
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How many active collectors
Posted By: Marc S.
I've heard figures/estimates that say something like 1 to 1.5 million T-206 cards are presently out there, which would be about 2,000 to 3,000 of each player. |
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Posted By: warshawlaw
There are enough T206 examples of all but the biggest rarities that any collector with the money could assemble a set very quickly. |
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Posted By: James Feagin
That figure of 2000-3000 of each player sounds very very low. 1914/1915 Cracker Jack actually stated that they produced 15,000,000 total cards, for 150K appx. of each player. While Cracker Jack's are not rare by any stretch, they are far less common than t206. |
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Posted By: Marc S.
<<That figure of 2000-3000 of each player sounds very very low. 1914/1915 Cracker Jack actually stated that they produced 15,000,000 total cards, for 150K appx. of each player. While Cracker Jack's are not rare by any stretch, they are far less common than t206.>> |
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Posted By: James Feagin
If I was to wager a completely unscientific guess, I would say that most common t206 cards have 20-25K per. Heaven knows I've already seen more than 2000 of some of those commons! |
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Posted By: identify7
The number of active collectors = the number of cards listed for sale on ebay (150,000) x the number of purchases made by the average collector in a week (1) = 150,000*. |
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Posted By: Darren J. Duet
How many red cobbs to green cobbs? |
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Posted By: barrysloate
I always felt there are a couple of million T206 surviving. I think more survived than Cracker Jack because of their size. They fit very snugly into cigar boxes. Cracker Jacks, also partly because of the thin paper, didn't hold up as well. |
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Posted By: Anonymous
What about the american caramels? and standard caramels(e93)? i think there are even less there. |
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Posted By: Dave
I think there are many more T206 cards than caramels. The prices seem to agree with this. I've heard it said that the T cards were generally bought by adults, while the caramels had a large population of kids getting them. So, the T cards had much better chance of being kept in decent condition. |
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Posted By: Scot Reader (ebay: sreader3)
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How many active collectors
Posted By: JimB
Scot, |
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Posted By: T206Collector
Thank you for the analysis. I have no idea where you got most of your numbers.... and I don't care. It was a very entertaining and persuasive read. |
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Posted By: pete
actually counted all of the t206's owned by board members, regardless the player...how many members are we, 50? 75? |
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Posted By: Cat
...and I own 10 t206s. |
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Posted By: Robert
I have about 500 T206's and in the process of selling quite a few of them. Nobody answered my original question. How many collectors are actively out there? |
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Posted By: Alan
there is a fine line between collectors and "venture capitalists" is this hobby. and is a kid buying packs at a store as a pre-teen considered a collector? semantics, i guess. in truth, there are more collectors out there then we think. the national's attendance indicates that. and, while we are speaking of the national (well i am), i think it is horrid that it is in anaheim next year. i LIVE in LA and i still think it is a terrible spot. i think most of the collectors live east of the mississippi. i guess they are trying to tap another market and give the dealers a vacation. but i think the national should remain in the east or the midwest, where the travel isnt as difficult and long. my thoughts. YOURS? |
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Posted By: pete
wait a minute, it would cost me hundreds of $ to travel anywhere other than anaheim, i live in west covina 25 mins and im going! dont try getting it cancelled just yet...and to answer the original question, there is really no way of knowing how many collectors are out there...i was a collector in the '80's and early '90's then i left, then i came back so do i count as 2 collectors or just 1?? |
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Posted By: RC McKenzie
I thought I saw a post about the number of different/individual 'hits' to this site per month. The number of serious collectors is that number. I don't know how many catalogues Mastro sends out, but I bet it's a lower number. Safe to say it's not alot of folks for the vintage cards, Hence, Lemke smiling at creating a vintage only book for sale. GL |
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Posted By: jay behrens
I seem to remember Leon saying one time that there were over 800 unique hits to the site one month, and this was a while back. I am sure Leon or Brian could update us. |
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Posted By: Hal Lewis
That was going to be MY question: |
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Posted By: Scot Reader (ebay: sreader3)
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Posted By: jay behrens
I've heard from some truely old timers that many packs came with 2 cards, one a ball player, the other a non-sport card. |
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Posted By: Ted Zanidakis
There is old advertisement for HINDU cigarettes that displays TWO |
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Posted By: Richard Dwyer
Bird Series cards were distributed 1910-1911. Same factories used by T206: |
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