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Julie VognarI had a small collection of M116s. One of them had a black back. I had Lipset's 3 books, but it never occurred to me to look there. I kept worrying that the black-backed card was a fake.
Whoever bought them gobbled them all up without so much as a double-take about the black back. (Now, according to you, there are quite a few of them.)
Sometimes you don't know what you really like till it's gone. I never replaced my M116s--so I guess I didn't like them very much. Another interesting by-product of having to practically start over again: Almost all of my T206s ex-mint or better (remember nothing was slabbed in those days) were bought up. Ther vg-exs and exs were left with me (and one Cobb, bat off, and a Bender with trees Carolina Brights back that I refused to part with). Came the middle of the nineties, and even moreso now, I'd rather have T206s in vg-ex and ex! Most of the ones you wound yourself on the corners of have been altered.
Sorry to bend your ear so much.
