Wednesday, November 4, 2015

My Membership in the T206 Club Expands (And a New Collecting Goal)

I was filing away the awesome T206 card I received from Zippy Zappy into my vintage Giants binder and decided that one isn't enough.  I decided to make a checklist of all the Giants in the set and see if I could perhaps find some reasonably priced T206s to add to my collection.  I am not a stickler for condition usually but I typically like to purchase cards without creases or paper loss but upon researching the available T206 cards and their prices I realized my collection would stay quite small unless I altered my condition expectations.

In the end I decided to look for cards that look good to my eye, creases were perfectly fine and I would even take a little paper loss.  I think I did okay with this card of Chief Myers.  Chief has 3 variations in the set and this is the fielding version (the other 2 are a portrait and batting).


I think the card presents itself just fine and for just about the price of a blaster for a card over a century old I am pretty glad to have it in my collection.

When I researched the Giants in the set, I found that there are 52 Giants cards - I am not concerning myself with the different backs at this point.  As I eluded to in the title of my post, the creation of the checklist and the recent addition of 2 beauties from the set has led to a new collecting goal for me.  I have decided to add one new Giants T206 card to my collection each month.  I am hoping to keep this goal in play throughout the remainder of 2015 and all of 2016 & 2017.  This would get me to about the halfway point of the team set.

I honestly don't see myself ever completing this team set.  There are 3 different Christy Mathewson cards and 4 different John McGraw cards that sell at a premium even in worse condition than this Chief card.  Maybe one day I could score one of each player but I don't want to even set the goal of the team set when it is so far out of reach.

I am pretty excited to be expanding my membership in the T206 club!
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  1. NickNovember 4, 2015 at 10:24 AM

    Beautiful card! I'm happy to be a member of the T206 club as well.

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    1. arpsmithNovember 4, 2015 at 1:16 PM

      It took a long time for my first but now that I have one I want more!

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  2. FujiNovember 4, 2015 at 10:58 AM

    Very cool project. I was excited to add one T206 to my collection... but hopefully I'll add another to keep him company. Possibly Chief Bender. Now that's a first name that has been lost over this past century. Have fun and best of luck on grabbing as many of these for your collection.

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    1. arpsmithNovember 4, 2015 at 1:18 PM

      Thanks, Chief Bender is a good target, I think he has 3 different poses.

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  3. Reds Card CollectorNovember 4, 2015 at 11:42 AM

    52? Holy crap that's a lot of cards. And I thought I had it rough with trying to chase down 23 cards. Best of luck. It's always great to add a tobacco card to the collection.

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    1. arpsmithNovember 4, 2015 at 1:16 PM

      In looking at the checklist I saw online, the 52 Giants is far and away the most - the Cubs are next with 36. Just my luck :-)

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  4. Zippy ZappyNovember 4, 2015 at 12:25 PM

    As a guy who's tried building the T206 Highlanders team set on and off these past three years, all I can say is good luck. Even without HoF superstars like Matthewson these team sets are harder to assemble than one would think.

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    1. arpsmithNovember 4, 2015 at 1:19 PM

      I am hoping that by setting a goal of only 50% of them I can avoid frustrations.

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  5. Collecting CutchNovember 4, 2015 at 8:16 PM

    I'd love to complete the Pirates team set, but there's that Honus Wagner issue I will ultimately run into.

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    1. RAZNovember 5, 2015 at 12:21 AM

      I heard there is a trimmed copy of the Wagner card out there. Maybe you can inquire about a discount on it?

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  6. GCANovember 5, 2015 at 10:13 AM

    I have a portrait of the 1909 NY Giants team. That inspired me to start the T205 team set. Got lucky and found a McGraw for a decent price. Mathewson will be another story. Go here and see what I have so far. The team photo is there too. http://loqtus.webs.com/newyorkgiantst205.htm

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