Finally finished – and exhausted – from my three-day tour.
Compared to two years ago in Rosemont, there was a greater quantity and range of material, especially pre-WWI. Many more uncommon to rare backs for candy, tobacco, magazines, you name it. I saw five or six tables with stacks of Old Judges. (Two stacks of at least four counts as plural.) I think I saw two last time. There was also more traffic at the vintage tables than two years ago, I had to wait to talk to somebody half the time instead of only a few times. It seems like every other dealer I talked to had just picked up a big collection within the past few weeks. The balance of folks was more like the outside world, too. It's amazing how a shift of just (probably) a couple percentage points makes it feel like so much less of a sausagefest.
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