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HoytdunkI wanted cards for my birthday present in 1974 (I think that was the year) and my parents decided a week before my birthday to let me place an order the CCC. I waited and waited, but cards from CCC.
I received an envelop from CCC some weeks/months later stating they had a fire and lost alot of inventory and gave me a credit for future purchases. From my recollection they said the fire actually took place on my birthday March 30 in 1974.
At some point after that CCC had cards for sale in "poor condition" which had water and/or smoke damage. I had real nice 1965 Mantle from that purchase that looked great. In the 1980's I realized it had the smoke damage trimmed off and that is why it looked so nice.
I bought a set run a couple of years ago that contained cards from the CCC fire inventory. The cards were purchased in the 1970's/early 1980's. I can always tell with the smoke damage on the edges, etc.