the amazing thing to me when thinking about really rare prewar issues is thinking about how many examples of cards were probably literally tossed in the trash, either right when they came out, or over the years as kids aged and left home, and parents tossed things out, especially long before these cards were known to be valuable.
i've just started collecting the M101-2 set, and the paper stock is super fragile and thin. its amazing to me that ANY copies of those survived 100+ years. then you think about something like T206, where millions of copies were produced, and 99% of them were just tossed in the trash. so many cobbs, mattys, cy youngs just discarded like they were nothing. because at that time, to most people, they were nothing.
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