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06-23-2005, 10:01 PM
Posted By: <b>Vernon F.</b><p>Guys and Gals, this is my first post although I've been lurking in the shadows for a while. First, let me introduce myself. My name is Vernon Fabre and I am an avid LSU Tiger fan. I've been collecting baseball cards for about 30+ years and started with my son collecting HOF RCs from 1948 to present at baseball card shows held once a month in Baton Rouge. (Sadly, there are no more shows). I got started collecting pre-war from John Maxwell's auctions, mostly T-206s, T 205s, Triple Folders, etc. Since I now have just about all of the HOF RCs from 1948 to present ( just missing the obvious high dollar '51B Mantle, '54 Aaron, and '52 Mathews) , I have become addicted to the prewar cards. My ebay ID is bigpecan, and I have only used it to buy cards. I haven't been able to bring myself to sell any of my cards, but that might change to help feed my hobby. <br />The purpose of this post is to let you know the extremely valuable resource you are for the inexperienced collector. I only wish I had found this site sooner. I now have a portable 100 X microscope, a blacklight, I don't bid on anything with "private" bids, I research feedback, and have learned to spot suspicious items. Now, best of all, because of a recent thread, I have a list of ebay IDs of collectors I can trust. <br />Please keep up the good work! There are probably a lot of us inexperienced collectors lurking and improving our knowledge of the hobby as well as improving the quality of our collections because of the information posted in these threads. <br /><br />BayouBengal