[Howe’s Hunter]

My original goal as to get as many T206s as I could. Then I tried to break it up by getting one of each back. So I bought an affordable Hindu backed card sight unseen and when it arrived, it had a stamp on the back. Wasn’t happy about the fact the stamp wasn’t mention but it was affordable.

Move ahead almost 15 years, and while looking on eBay for any card I could afford, there was a Piedmont with the same stamp. Thought it might be kind of cool to have two cards with the same mark, bid on and won it. Came on Net54, posted pictures of the two and heard from several members saying they had one also. Within six months, I had six. A year later, I sold all my other cards and decided to collect nothing but cards with Howe McCormick’s stamp on the back.

That was in 2007, and since then, the collection has grown to 392. The latest two arrived just yesterday, I’ve not had a chance to post them in the puck-up thread yet.

But what started as a way of picking up some cheap cards (they were marked, after all) seems to have become a collecting niche for others.

No idea how many of Howe’s cards are still out there, but when I can, I’ll continue to pick them up. And the collection wouldn’t be where it is without the help of so many here on Net54. Thanks to you all.