Extraordinarily rare and beautiful example of this Reds infielder"s T206 card graded NMT-MT by PSA due to its brilliant borders and vivid color one of the most beautiful T206 cards you will ever see. Top-grade T206s continue to outpace a good portion of the prewar card market price-wise due in large part to the combination of T206"s tremendous popularity with the extreme rarity of high-grade examples (fewer than 4% of all graded T206s have achieved a grade of NMT or higher).This particular example is one of very few Downey cards to attain a grade this high with none besting it. Currently this is the only T206 Downey (fielding) with a Piedmont back to have been graded 8 by PSA though an additional three have been graded with "unknown back" (prior to the days of PSA recognizing back varieties in their cards). An extremely rare high-grade card.Population DataPSA Population: 131 total graded 1 at this level 0 higher*SGC Population: 65 total graded 0 at this level 0 higher**Note that an additional 138 examples are categorized in PSA"s pop reports as having "unknown backs " with three grading NM-MT and still none higher. The one high-grade example of this card in an SGC holder should be negated as this card was crossed from a high-grade SGC holder and no longer exists as graded by SGC.