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J LevineMess is a great way to describe what really is a cohesive collection of mine. As many know, I collect Phillies. From the earliest known images of them to 1989 (arbitrary ending point but after 1989, the amount of sets, chase cards, etc. is absolutely crazy).
Taken as a whole, my collection is a wonderful history of the Phillies but when seen as a whole, it looks like a mess to me. I keep everything in notebooks (in a safe and locked cabinet). Looks wonderfully nice as rows of notebooks dated from 1886-1900, 1901-1933, 1933-1943, etc. When you open the books though the pages look rough. My collection ranges in the fair-nrmt grades but each page has many different issues. Very few pages contain only one issue. Every now and then it looks great as with t206s which is a few pages long. But when you get to caramel issues, I have dockmans, next to nadja, next to e121, next to e126, etc. It gets worse into the 30s, and downright ugly into the '70s and '80s.
Having nearly 2500 sets represented, with over 7500 different Phillies makes it messy...
The good news is that when I need a break from the mess, I pull out my t205 binder and just bask in the beauty of the set.
Joshua