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Posted By: barrysloate

Leon- I agree there are some great things still to be found and perhaps I didn't express myself as clearly as I wanted. What I meant to say was if you look at some of the early hobby publications, you virtually never see great 19th century cards being offered, and we can't assume all of them were found in the last 10-20 years. Somebody somewhere had this great stuff and knew what it was and had it as part of their collection/inventory, but it never seemed to be for sale. Pull out a 1976 Trader Speaks and look at what percentage of the material being offered was Topps, Bowman, Goudey, etc. and then try to find some great 19th century rarities in those ads. Likewise, when I went to shows in the early 80's, every other table had a 52 Mantle or a 63 Rose, but virtually none had early material. Where was the rare stuff hiding?