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1909-11 T206 #394 Deacon Phillipe (PSA 2) Ultra Rare back

Currency:CAD Category:Collectibles / Trading Cards Start Price:1,500.00 CAD Estimated At:1,500.00 - 3,000.00 CAD
1909-11 T206 #394 Deacon Phillipe (PSA 2) Ultra Rare back
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We start our fall auction with baseball, as the October Classic takes shape. Here's a true rarity in a hobby where modern collecting is dominated by "manufactured" scarcities. This is a 1909-11 T206 card of pitcher Deacon Phillippe, who had an excellent career at the turn of the 20th century (won 20 games in 6 of his first 7 big league seasons). The rarity and extreme value of this card is found on the back. There were 17 different tobacco brands in the massive T206 set. Piedmont and Sweet Caporal are the most common, accounting for approximately 80% of known cards today. This "Broad Leaf" back represents a miniscule .25% or less of total population of PSA graded T206s. That's 1/4 of 1%. There are 695 total Phillippe T206s in the PSA database, and ONLY 3 have Broad Leaf backs. A PSA survey was done a few years back and there were 113,000 T206s in their database at that point. Of that total only 228 were Broad Leaf. So rare in this case is not hyperbole. This is an actual rarity, a true antiquity, highly prized by serious collectors. The opening bid in CDN $ is below the few comps for the grade ($1500 USD to $2500 USD).