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Posted By: Tim Newcomb

Here's another one:

Postcard show, Lancaster, PA, 2001.

A dealer in old postcards tells me he's just picked up a few old BB items, and offers them to me for $35, $7 apiece. I buy them pretty much sight unseen and get two 1888 Scrapps including a Dan Brouthers that's at least VG, and three of the WG-1 playing card game, including Anson. The WG-1s are trimmed, but still-- yikes!!


And one more:

A little used bookstore, Champaign, IL, 2000:

I see an old pin of a type I've never seen before, with Frank Baker pictured in it. I have no idea what it is, but buy it for $25. I take it home and learn I've just bought a PM1 Ornate-Frame Pin that has never been cataloged, and might very well be unique. You'll find Baker in the Standard Catalog PM1 checklist now, but only because I told Bob Lemke about it.......