The one that got away--what's yours?
I was sifting through some unorganized clutter in my scan folder and stumbled across an auction from 7 1/2 years ago that still haunts me. I had not been collecting m101s all that long and was focusing on m101-4, so I, like everyone else, let this one go without a bid:
Here's a scan of the card in that auction:
That very same card, a scarce shortprint, sold for $8000.00 last October in the Legendary Auction. A $90 investment in 2003 would have returned nearly 90 fold. Excuse me while I go cry some more. Anybody else have a horror story?
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If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other. - Ulysses S. Grant, military commander, 18th US President.
Last edited by nolemmings; 04-10-2011 at 01:27 AM.
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