My wife--who tolerates my collecting obsession with the same resigned detachment as a parent has to show for a toddler's play time--was watching the show with me and when the cards came up. I told her some background on the issues and that they were in the REA auction. I then showed her the catalog and let her read the write-up on the group. She came away impressed with both the finances (how much money the cards were worth--noncollectors always go there first) and the professionalism of the sales effort. Although she knows intellectually that there is big money and sophisticated purchasing on the lines of art or antiques involved in card collecting I dont think it really sunk in until that evening that this is a serious endeavor engaged in by adults.
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