I have told this story before but back in the early 1990's, I went to a large collector's show looking for sports items. One dealer from St. Louis had a lot of sports items displayed. Then in a showcase were a stack of baseball cards.
The stack consisted of American Caramel and Curtis Ireland Candy cards. There were at least 20 Curtis Ireland cards including a Ty Cobb with black construction paper on the back. The dealer was asking $1300 for the stack and he wouldn't sell any cards individually.
Being a college student, I didn't have $1300 so I called my friend Ted Koch and he came to the show and bought the stack for $1000 cash. He gave me a Curtis Ireland card as a finders fee. He kept the cards for some years before consigning them to Lew Lipset around 2002. If anyone has a catalog from that auction, I would really like to see how many Curtis Ireland cards there were.
David
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