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The Ottawa Ontario C56 Hockey Collection

Near-Complete Set Found Affixed To Scrapbook

• January 15, 2017
• Leighton Sheldon

It's been a while since we've been able to purchase a C56 Hockey set - probably about 10 years now - so I was super pumped when this lead came in last month. A gentleman from Florida had contacted us looking to sell his near-complete set (only missing 1 card) of C56 hockey cards that had been collected by his father. Even though he lives in Florida, he's originally from Ottawa Ontario, which makes sense because the C56 Imperical Tobacco was produced in Canada, back in 1910. He was able to find

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T206 Ty Cobb Bat Off Shoulder (Old Mill)

• August 07, 2014
• Leighton Sheldon

A few years ago, a chatter named “Sparty”, in the Baseball Almanac Forum, stated that if baseball cards had a Mount Rushmore, all four of the Ty Cobb T206 tobacco cards would occupy the monument. The T206s have previously been called the king of the card collecting mountain, and are avidly desired, wanted, and craved by collectors worldwide. Honus Wagner, Walter Johnson, Christy Mathewson, Cy Young and the Georgia Peach, among so many other icons

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