About Us
About T206Cards.com
Welcome to T206Cards.com, where the spirit of the iconic 1909-11 tobacco set thrives. We share vintage collectibles with others through our always rotating museum of inventory.
We're excited to share that our new, retail location will have it's Grand Opening ceremony on April 17th, 2025! Find our new address at the bottom of this page.
Our aim is to set a new standard of hobby excellence with a seamless ecommerce shopping experience, innovative products, on-demand knowledgeable support, fair pricing, and fast, secure and complimentary shipping for orders over $30.
Join us in passionately celebrating history and the joy of collecting!
About the 1909-11 T206 Card Set
In 1909 the American Tobacco Company (ATC) forever revolutionized sports cards with their release of the iconic 524-subject tobacco baseball card set. The label T206 was initially assigned to this set by collector Jefferson Burdick in his 1939 book, The United States Card Collectors Catalog.
Designed to support sales of tobacco, the cards were packaged within cigarette boxes and tobacco pouches and sold under a variety of brand names consolidated by the ATC. Extremely successful in their mission, they continued to produce the set over a three year period.
Today, the 1909-11 T206 tobacco card set is recognized as one of the most iconic and collectible sets in baseball history. It's vast checklist and wide array of back types, series, teams and leagues offer collectors several ways to collect. Commonly referred to as The Monster Set, it presents collectors a unique challenge to dive deep into the history of baseball and American tobacco cards.
For more information, read our Guide to Collecting T206 Baseball Cards.
Our Story
Founded in July, 2022, we just moved over from offices to a full retail location in Santa Rosa, California! Our Grand Opening will be held on April, 17th 2025.
Until then, please call to schedule an in-person appointment. We would love to review your collection!
While our focus will remain vintage, our new retail location will stock a full run of new & sealed products from Topps, Panini, Upper Deck, Leaf, The Pokémon Company and BCW Supplies.
We prioritize taking care of the cards in our collection as well as our customers, practice fair trade and ethical business practices, and do our best to support other like-minded small businesses.
Shop our wide and always growing selection of collectibles including vintage baseball cards, exciting vintage set breaks and gorgeous larger-than-life prints of your favorite tobacco cards.
Additionally, we've grown a Facebook Group of over 5,600 members! Join today for real-time product updates and to take advantage of exclusive promotions.
About Justin Farber
Justin Farber began collecting cards as a child in the early 1990s, purchasing $0.25 mystery packs from a small town mall's hobby shop in rural South Dakota. Hooked, the obsession grew as he ultimately built 1953-1956 Topps sets and fell in love with the T206 set, amassing a collection of over 320 unique subjects. Another one of his collecting passions is his inexplicable Sammy Sosa PSA Master Set Registry Collection.
Justin holds Bachelor degrees in Economics and Political Science from Pepperdine University, and an MBA from Quantic University. Justin spent over a decade in the workforce helping to develop ad tech solutions and managing multi-million dollar digital advertising campaigns for a variety of companies including Ford, Glad, and Marcus by Goldman Sachs.
In March 2023, Justin gladly resigned from his Associate Director role at a leading global ad agency, Dentsu. He is now dedicated to growing the T206 Cards business, and is currently focused on preparing the retail storefront for opening day, and curating future vintage set breaks.
Justin also helps admin one of the largest and most active vintage trading cards groups on Facebook, VINTAGE CARDS - FIRE SALES - WAX - ESTATES - AUCTION HOUSE ⭐ 1860-1993.
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Contact Us
Email Justin directly at justin@t206cards.com. For quick inquiries, use the button below!