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Originally Posted by samosa4u
] The Howe rookie (1951 Parkhurst) was probably a $10 card back then.
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Not in the slightest. It had great value for the time, even then. Just as coveted as it is today. I'm Canadian and remember it well.
There was a store in my hometown that was famous for selling very bad fake signed cards. All with the same black Sharpie and all pathetic even to my grade school eyes. They had a Howe RC in one of those "iceberg" screw downs. This would have been around 1991. The asking price was $5K. I asked to see it. The jerk/forger begrudgingly "showed" it to me by lifting it from the shelf of the display case to the underside of the glass top. Gee, thanks. Between that move and the forgeries, I never went back. Thankfully, the place didn't last long. Scumbag.