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About Us

About T206Cards.com

Welcome to T206 Cards, where the spirit of the iconic 1909-11 tobacco set thrives. We share collectibles with others through our always rotating museum of inventory.

Our new, retail location opened April 17th, 2025! Visit to shop a wide range of sealed products and singles across all sports, vintage and modern.

Our aim is to set a new standard of hobby excellence with a seamless ecommerce shopping experience, on-demand knowledgeable support, fair pricing, and fast, secure and complimentary shipping for orders over $30.

Visit or shop our online store of over 4,000 graded cards today!

Our Story

Founded in July, 2022, we operate both the website and a local card shop in Santa Rosa, California! We stock a full run of new & sealed products from Topps, Panini, Upper Deck, Leaf, The Pokémon Company and BCW Supplies.

We offer complimentary appraisals and would love to review your collection! We buy collections and trade every day.

 

We prioritize taking care of the cards in our collection as well as our customers, 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 supplis.

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.

T206 Cards Storefront
Graded Cards in the T206 Cards Shop

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.

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 team

Justin Farber
Founder
Rich Brasil
Inventory Manager

Contact Us

Email Justin directly at justin@t206cards.com. For quick inquiries, use the button below!