Signed T206 Clarke

Originally from the Jeff Morey collection, by way of a trade with a very generous collector.

From Autographed T206

Jeff Morey's "Lost" Cards -- Help Me Find Them!

I received a wonderful package in the mail from Jeff Morey. It was a four page photo copy of a large portion of his signed pre-war card collection, representing many of the cards he consigned to Mastro Auctions circa 2001. I have cut and pasted the cards into the various appropriate sections on my website, and invite you to view the entire package on the Morey Interview page, towards the bottom.

Spectacular cards -- even in black and white. If you know of the whereabouts of any of these, you simply must let me know.

Big Trade In The Works

After months and months of negotiating and false starts, I am on the precipice of a really big trade for a signed T206 card that I do not already have. It has proven to be quite the challenge. Even just finding the owner of the card that I knew was out there somewhere is somewhat of a miracle. But to finally compile a collection of cards that was worthy of a trade took a lot of time and effort. And it will not be without its victims. If the trade goes through as planned, I will have to give up my signed T202 of Zach Wheat. I really do not want to do this, but when I had an opportunity to pick up another signed T206 card, I had to take that leap. For while I really loved my signed T202, I am not a T202 collector. I am a T206 collector. And one cannot lose collecting focus.

When the card is safely in hand, I will share more details and, of course, a scan of this beautiful card. Stay tuned.....

White Plains Show

Headed over the East Coast National at the Westchester County Center over the weekend and picked up 29 T206 cards for a reasonable price. Now I'm back over the century mark in my renewed pursuit of the Monster.

I have found that I really enjoy collecting the set in raw, low grade, but presentable, form. Sifting through a 100 deep stack of T206 cards is really a pleasure, regardless of condition. And I'd rather have 100 T206 cards in any condition than 10 SGC 60 commons. So, for the time being, I'll keep accruing them that way.

I also made a couple of leads on signed pre-war cards. Stay tuned....

Need To Sell The Unsigned To Pay For The Signed

I need to fund some recent signed T206 purchases and so am selling this beauty on ebay.

X is for Ty Xobb?

I've often thought it too bad that T206 does not have a single player whose last name begins with the letter X. Oh, there are a million and one Bs and Ms in the T206 set -- but nary an X. But here's a quick T206 trivia question -- how many T206 Players do not share a last name beginning with the same letter as another T206'er? The answer is 4. The next question is -- can you name them without checking?

I'll give you a few more lines of text so as to give you a chance to think about it without seeing the answer -- at least not so obviously. Here, I'll give you a hint -- they begin with the letter I, U, V and Z. There you have it -- which 4 players of the T206 set have last names beginning with I, U, V and Z? If you're reading this blog, I'm sure you have figured it out by now. If not -- well, then here are the answers: Isbell, Unglaub, Violat and Zimmerman.

Like I've said before, I enjoy playing alphabet games with T206. And if and when you do, just remember those 4 guys. And if you really want to stump them, then you should know that the only player in T206 with an X anywhere in his name is Jeff Pfeffer, whose real name was Francis Xavier Pfeffer.

Went to Maine for My Annual Family Vacation

...and during a rainy day headed over to Don's Sports Cards in Portland. As luck would have it, he had 3 T206 cards -- all beaters -- and I bought two of them for $25.00 total. Pretty cool. Wasn't expecting to add to my raw T206 set during my vacation, but I'll take 'em -- a Doc White throwing and an Ed Hahn.

Also managed to score a new signed T206 of Rube Marquard (portrait). Yes, I already have that one, but when there are no new ones hitting the market, I still get a substantial charge out of acquiring doubles. So if you've got any I have and want to part with, please let me know about it. And thanks to everyone that keeps me up to speed on the existence of signed pre-WWI cards in auctions and on B/S/T threads on Net54.