There are many popular card sets in the hobby but few carry the mystique of T206. Fascinating from top to bottom the set simultaneously serves as the novice collector's introduction to prewar cards due to their plentiful supply and the advanced collector's greatest challenge due to the issue's size large number of Hall of Famers and difficult variations and rarities. T206 contains some of the hobby's most affordable prewar cards as well as it's most expensive; some of its most plentiful cards as well as it's most rare. It can be collected in dozens of different ways: Hall of Famers teams Southern Leaguers horizontal back runs back sets master sets and more. Or the collector can just attack it head on and try and complete "The Monster" - though the number of collectors who have completed a T206 set is just a fraction of the number who have started. Presented here is the fruit of one such collector's labors: a near-set of 515 cards of the set's 524 missing the "big six" plus three easily obtained Hall of Famers: the "red background" card of Ty Cobb plus the "bare hand" and "glove showing" cards of Cy Young. An additional 28 duplicates are included in the collection bringing the grand total of T206 cards included here to 543. While the great majority of the issue's cards are ungraded the selection does contain 133 graded examples from either PSA or SGC. While a number of different back varieties are included the total number of cards with "tough" backs number in the 50 range with none tougher than a single brown Hindu back. The collector of this set was more focused on completing the task than by getting sidetracked by such things as difficult backs. It is often stated that the greatest value in purchasing a complete T206 set lies in its breakup value; acquiring 70 prewar Hall of Famers plus all the difficult Southern Leaguers variations and tough poses in one shot represents an excellent opportunity for a dealer to help multiple collectors with their own pursuits. However it is our opinion that acquiring a complete set such as this affords the collector with an outstanding foundation on which to upgrade and improve without the additional challenge of having to find all those tough cards. The majority of the cards in this collectionr eside at the lowest end of the grading scale with the graded examples slightly stronger than the ungraded. A condition breakdown of the graded cards is as follows: SGC EX+ 70: 1 card; SGC EX 60: