Pete -- I don't think our memories are that different. Red Hindus were recognized as very scarce even back then, as the article states, and commanded a pretty big premium. That's why I couldn't afford one back then on my budget, and I still don't have one. Same with BL460s and Drums. $40 for a brown Hindu sounds about right, and that's probably around what I paid for the one in the picture. $50 was about my limit, but I went above that for the Broad Leaf because I knew it was very tough to find. I always had a Tolstoi (Brashear) from my teenage collection (two Lenoxes, a Tolstoi, and two Polar Bears), so I never got too excited about them, but I did get a few more in better condition. (The one in the picture is Camnitz arm at side, which I got in 92-95.)
I still have all my SCDs from back then. I'll have to get them out of storage sometime and look at the ads, which probably still have my annotations. I could probably figure out when I got some of my cards and what I paid for them.
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