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Posted By: warshawlaw

The album pages are superb collectibles and superb booklets when they are complete, but they are not cards. "Card-like"? Exactly. Card-LIKE, not cards. I had not thought of Uncle Roy's laughing academy when I was writing my observations, but the guys are right--there is no philosophical difference between Roy's dismemberment of a booklet and busting up a Goodwin album. And I say this as someone who has collected Goodwin album pages and will do so in the future and has collected leaves from 19th century oversized books (Billy Edwards' rare 1895 oversized book of profiles of boxers is commonly taken apart for the beautiful 11 x 14 portraits, for example; Joe Choynski's hangs on the wall of my office--got it at the 2000 National for $5 from some moron who thought he was a wrestler).