[Bartholomew_Bump_Bailey]

Story time..........and please bear with me. I am trying to attach the pictures in the order of telling this story. I'll mark each point in the story that has a corresponding photo with an asterisk* (2 in a row ** means front and back pics)

So I was browsing several online auctions the other day with the hopes of stumbling onto something random and cool that maybe not necessarily a card for once. Maybe something that most non-baseball folk tend to over look. I stumble across a lot titled "Vintage Sports and Ephemera Lot from Estate" I follow the rabbit hole, click on the link and go to inspect the picture or pictures. It was a single picture* and there was literally no other detail other than "see pic for detail"

I must have been feeling "it" that day b/c for some reason I decided "what they hey" and set my max at 35.00. Low and behold I win....but the stupid thing ends up costing $20 to ship, so now we're at $55 total. Meanwhile I'm saying a little prayer as I go to sleep that night......."please don't be junk, please don't be junk, please don't be junk"

Well it arrived today. I start unpackaging and see that everything is in binder sleeves, which I had not noticed when bidding for some strange reason.

Initially my thoughts were, oh great I've bought a bunch of junk** but that at least I got what advertised in the auction pic. There were also 2 matchbook reprints**.

The next set of sleeves had stamps and envelopes*. These are only 2 examples* that I loaded because there are around a dozen or so of these and I thought these were a couple of the cooler ones. I find this* in one of the envelops as well.

I'm still skeptical of my purchase at this point bc for some reason I've never thought much of stamp stuff like this. I suppose they've been more of a niche/fringe item to me and I don't collect them just out of personal preference.

So next up I find post cards** and post card type items**.

About here** and here** is when I started to feel a little bit better about purchasing this as these were the first items that appeared to have some age on them.

Then I get really lucky I hope.

I find a "greeting" card type card* and open it to find this personalized message* (To Be Continued.....on the next post b/c I'm at the picture limit)