Ashby
Ashby was one of my favorite collector’s that I knew for close to forty years. He had dementia in his later years.
He was as old school collector as you could find. One encounter that makes me chuckle involved a gray back 1952 Topps Eddie Waitkus I found for him. The card looked near mint but had a series of factory surface wrinkles you had to hold the card at an angle to see.
I was trying to show him the wrinkles and Ashby started shaking his head and said “William, I don’t give a damn. I just want the card. What do I owe you?”
I do remember introducing Ashby to Ted at a Philly show 10 or so years ago.
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