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Julie VognarI can't get rid of this memory.
I took some cards to sell at Davesdougout in Albany, CA, because I wanted lots of money to bid in a Lipset auction (where I won a beautiful N172 Radbourn). We had absolutely no trouble agreeing on prices for cards. A '34 Goudey Geringer changed hands, and several much newer cards. Everything was fine until (he'd asked me particularly for A's and Giants) I gave him a '71 Bobby Bonds. It was perfect. It had been for 17 years. It was worth $6, retail.
So he gets out his jeweler's glass (is that what they call a loupe?), with the built-in light, and spends 5 MINUTES looking at the edges (the '71s have black edges, as I'm sure you all remember). Half way through the process, I told him I'd had the card for 17 years. He laughed. Kept on looking. Finally, he took out $3 and gave it to me. I mean, '34 Goudey Geringers can be trimmed, stretched, bleached, the back relettered-- guess he thought i wasm't smart enough to alter a Goudey, but would stoop to taking a majic marker to a '71 Bobby Bonds.
Anyway, I thought it was funny. 