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Posted By: Hankron

Two points.

The auction is being sold as a private auction. I know that honest people make mistakes and misidentify items, but anytime an apparent scammer offers his wares in a private auction he knows exactly what he is selling. When an auction is private, he should not and does not get the benifit of the doubt ('Maybe he really isn't sure if they are reprints').

Research is what collecting is about. Research includes learning about old players, and how different cards were distributed and made, and what kinds of cigarette packs held the cards, and why Jimmy Foxx used this kind of basbeall bat, and why some Old Judges are pink, and why few baseball cards were made in the 1890s and what were the great old stadiums in the 1950s and debating who was better Mays or Ruth-- this is half the fun of collecting. How can one collect historical artifacts yet have no interest in the history? I just can't see how someone who 'doesn't do the research' is really interested in anything other than the dollar signs.