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Jimmy Collins
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(b. January 16, 1870 - d. March 6, 1943)
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Inducted in 1945
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1909 T206 Carolina
Brights Jimmy Collins PSA 5 EX
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| Card Details Below: |
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| Year(s): |
1909 |
| ACC Set Designation: |
T206 |
| Set Name: |
Carolina Brights Cigarettes |
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United States |
| Description: |
The nearly 525 cards which make up the T206 set are
the most popular of the early tobacco issues. Players are depicted
in color lithographs surrounded by a white border. The player's
last name on the -7/16" X 2-5/8" cards appears at the bottom with
the city and league, when a city had more than one team. Backs contain
an ad for one of 16 brands of cigarettes. There are 389 major leaguer
cards and 134 minor leaguer cards in the set, but with front/back
varieties the number of potentially different cards runs into the
thousands. The set features many expensive cards including a number
of pose and/or team variations. |
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Example Carolina Brights Cigarettes Pack
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Example Carolina Brights Cigarettes Coupon
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Front
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Back
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Example Carolina Brights Advertisement
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Example Wells, Whitehead Tobacco Co. Envelope
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1909 T206 Polar
Bear Jimmy Collins PSA 6 EX-MT
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| Year(s): |
1909 |
| ACC Set Designation: |
T206 |
| Set Name: |
Polar Bear Cigarettes |
| Country: |
United States |
| Description: |
The nearly 525 cards which make up the T206 set are
the most popular of the early tobacco issues. Players are depicted
in color lithographs surrounded by a white border. The player's
last name on the -7/16" X 2-5/8" cards appears at the bottom with
the city and league, when a city had more than one team. Backs contain
an ad for one of 16 brands of cigarettes. There are 389 major leaguer
cards and 134 minor leaguer cards in the set, but with front/back
varieties the number of potentially different cards runs into the
thousands. The set features many expensive cards including a number
of pose and/or team variations. |
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Example Polar Bear Cigarettes Pack
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Example Polar Bear Cigarettes Coupon
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Back
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1909 T206 Tolstoi
Jimmy Collins PSA 4 VG-EX
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Comments: This position in the collection
is somewhat of an anomaly. Normally I pick just one card for each
player. There are a couple exceptions - Medwick and Collins. What
do they have in common? Well - in both cases I'm accumulating
different back variations of the same card. I've settled on three
different backs for Jimmy Collins - Carolina Brights, Polar Bear,
and Tolstoi. None of these were represented by any other player
in the collection so I ended up keeping all three. For how I came
to own these it's just best to summarize in a timeline:
- 09/2002 - PSA 1 (back unknown) via eBay from Jeff Morrill
(sportscardzz2)
- 12/2003 - PSA 6 (back unknown) via eBay from Jami Cullen (jgoldilox)
- 10/2005 - PSA 1 (Tolstoi) via Net54 B/S/T from Tom Botticelli
- 06/2006 - SGC 40 (Tolstoi) via eBay from Sean D. Besser (hanksta3)
- 10/2006 - PSA 5 (Carolina Brights) via eBay from Dean
Hanley (deansvintagecards) - Thanks Dean!
- 10/2006 - SGC 30 (Polar Bear) via eBay from Ryan Crisler (campuscove)
- 12/2006 - PSA 4 (Polar Bear) via eBay from London Venture
Capital (london_venture)
- 07/2007 - PSA 4 (Tolstoi) via eBay from Tom Reaves
(sunsurfandsand) - Thanks Tom!
- 08/2011 - PSA 6 (Polar Bear) via eBay from Stevens
Creek Sports Cards - Thanks, and love your shop by the way.
I stopped by multiple times when I was supporting a client in
Milpitas in (2003/4?)
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| Card Details Below: |
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| Year(s): |
1909 |
| ACC Set Designation: |
T206 |
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Tolstoi Cigarettes |
| Country: |
United States |
| Description: |
The nearly 525 cards which make up the T206 set are
the most popular of the early tobacco issues. Players are depicted
in color lithographs surrounded by a white border. The player's
last name on the -7/16" X 2-5/8" cards appears at the bottom with
the city and league, when a city had more than one team. Backs contain
an ad for one of 16 brands of cigarettes. There are 389 major leaguer
cards and 134 minor leaguer cards in the set, but with front/back
varieties the number of potentially different cards runs into the
thousands. The set features many expensive cards including a number
of pose and/or team variations. |
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