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Posted By: Mike Ernst

In response to Dave's question above about 1100 for $20--that was very cheap then, too. The owner was a retired farmer outside of Max, North Dakota. (I was interning in Minot the 1971-972 school year--that year was the longest decade of my life). The owner indicated that he had gotten these as a kid in New York city, and that he had kept them, just in the hope of finding someone who could use them. I'll never forget him pouting them out of an old Corn Flakes box onto the oilskin tablecloth in his farmhouse kitchen. He wanted very much to give them to me, and I had to force the $20 on him. A good memory!