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Peter Thomasso I began collecting 48 Leafs. I could obtain these in exchange for soda pop bottles which I could pick up on the way to the store. Our neighborhood was rapidly growing after WW2 and the construction workers discarded their bottles (some things don't change). The missing numbers drove me crazy and was the cause of much discussion with my friends. I collected until I entered college and did not like the look of 61 Topps. When my parents retired and moved fron Boston to Florida my mother asked what she should do with the cards and I told her to ger rid of them. When she died 20 years latter and I was going through their house I found all of the cards, including about 30 canceled Goudeys that my grand dad had given me, neatly arranged in three shoe boxes. My son rekindeled interest in cards in the 80's and we have be active since then. Like Scott we are very interested in Ramlys and I am also working on a master E92 set with all four backs. 56 years later I am still messing with the Leafs and now have about 500 cards, including abould 150 from childhood - many with tape marks. I am determined to finish this set this year only DiMaggio and Hermansk to go.