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Posted By: Gilbert Maines

Usually a baseball card is in the hobby from its date of manufacture until its demise, but not always. Sometimes they get lost. These poor lost cards find themselves in the company of other photographs, cabinets and non-sports assemblies. To eventually be rescued by a person knowledgable about our hobby.

Documentation of this process of finding the card and bringing it (back) into the hobby is a card's provenance which would be of interest to me; as well as the establishment of the card's chain of custody, if possible, prior to its re-discovery. Im not sure that I would pay extra for it, but I know that I wouldn't pay extra for a Charlie Sheen previously owned anything.