Collection milestone: T205 Brooklyn Superbas completed

TNP777 · October 17, 2012 12:44PM

Not a lot of preamble here. I've been slowly but surely chasing three pre-WW2 Brooklyn Dodger/Superbas sets: T205, T206 and 1933 Goudey. Today's mail brought the last card I needed to have all three sets complete. Irvin Wilhelm is a pretty tough card, and comes with two back variations - "suffe ed" and "suffered".

Really all it is is a printing problem, but they are recognized variations within the hobby. Anyway, I have the "suffe ed" variation, which seems to be a lot more common. I'm told that's not necessarily the case - the reality is that the "suffered" version is being hoarded to keep prices up. Whatever. If I find a "suffered" version for a good enough price, I'll pick it up, but for all intents and purposes I consider my T205 Brooklyn Superbas set done.

If you have a spare moment or two, I've got a significant portion of my vintage Dodger collection scanned. Link is below in my sig.

Thanks for looking!

Downtown1974 · October 17, 2012 7:57PM

Outstanding Geordie! Congrats on a huge accomplishment!

I love looking through your collection. I'm glad you keep a link in your sig line because its one of those threads that never gets old. It's comfort food for when ever I am in a card buying drought.

calaban7 · October 17, 2012 9:32PM

Great job Geordie , your collection capture the essence of what it means to be a card collector , which shows with all your Dodgers sets .

My hat off to you my friend----

---- Sonny

Bosox1976 · October 18, 2012 3:48AM

Fine work!

Foo3112 · October 18, 2012 4:06AM

Thats pretty awesome.

Did you know you were going to collect all the Dodgers when you got your first one or slowly did it happen that way?

Thanks for sharing.

BTW - Who was your first and last?