When I resurrected my childhood 1955-1960 Topps & Bowman collection (that, thankfully, Mom didn't toss away!) in the mid-1980s, I started going to local shows and acquiring cards to try to complete these sets as well as earlier and later Topps & Bowman sets. It was then that I first learned that pre-War cards existed! One Saturday, I drove over to Bill Higgins' store in nearby Maryland, and I traded him some 1960 Topps (in pristine condition, as I recall) for my first Pre-War card (see pic below). By the early to mid 1990s, my collecting focus had changed to Pre-War cards.
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