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Posted By: Marc S. 

T-206 cards can truly be considered to be "one owner"?

http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1806636924

Wouldn't the seller of this item be considered the second owner?

Of course, this seller also implies that he just opened a 1953 Topps pack:

http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1806228157

Pretty hard to believe, considering that 1953 Topps is the hardest unopened wax pack to find post-WWII...

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Posted By: Elliot

Also, think how old that "one owner" of the t206 card must be be?

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Posted By: Marc S.

Though I wasn't clear about it.

If someone was the "original" owner of some T-206 cards, and started smoking at a relatively early age of 15, they would be sitting in the nursing home at a relatively ripe age of 107 or so right now.

I can't imagine that there are many original owners of cards for many cards before the 1930's. And even those have to be scarce in today's world. Oh well, sellers will continue to sell a story rather than the actual card.

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Posted By: john

I bought strip cards off the original owner about 10 years ago....he came into a card store trying to sell them to the owner,werent the best shape,but the owner remembered me asking for t206 cards and asked if i might be interested,the guy wanted $30 for 28 of them so i couldnt pass it up,got 2 hall of famers out of the deal.... all the cards were from 1923 sets