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Posted By: barrysloate

As Mark said all the rare material is more available today. My real question is where was all the great stuff back then? All the Kalamazoo Bats and Four Base Hits and Yum Yums and G&B's and rare candy cards, etc. that are in collections today were somewhere back in the 1970's. But where were they? I don't know if anyone has the answer, but did it have to do with the fact that they weren't worth enough for people to consider selling them? Or was there a complete disinterest and lack of knowledge? Even with the proliferation of vintage collectors today, rare material is available in nearly every good auction. But with only a tiny number of collectors back then, you would have expected the stuff to be everywhere with few if any takers. It just seems to me a bit incongruous.