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Originally Posted by prewarsports
"The good old days" of ten years ago are a distant memory and we will never go back there again. Very few new archives will ever hit the market.
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So true. You got in early and smart, Rhys. Did you have any idea what gold you were mining at the time?
One qualifier: there are lots of private 'archives' out there. For example, sports writers in the analog days had files of photos that they got from their jobs and those files come up for sale in flea markets, paper fairs, antique shows, etc. Most of it is dross but one can run across a vein of gold now and then. This 1969 Simpson premium came out of one such archive last month:
This Ali photo came from one I found at an antique show years ago:
