Old time trading is gone
Trading now is nothing like it was 40 years ago. In the early 1980's I traded quite a bit with old time collector Crab Foxwell as we both lived in Cambridge, MD and he was a very good friend. He was doing quite a few shows in the MD-PA area and was overloaded with pre-war (not selling at most shows) and out of 1950's & 60's material. I was buying collections and not doing shows yet.
We would put up a card table under the tree behind my antique shop to do our trades. He would put a T3 Johnson in the center and ask for Mantle's. When the pile got right, he would slide me the Johnson and take the Mantles. I put a 1957 T Brooks Rookie & 1967 Brooks Hi # in the center and he would build his pile of pre-war to trade. We could usually sit there for an hour or more trading and talking.
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