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Posted By: Rick McQuillan

Peter, I like to try to imagine the timeline of the cards. Just think, 98 years ago some guy went into a store to buy a pack of smokes. He opened the pack and pulled out the card. What happened then? Did he give it to a kid? Take it home and throw it in a drawer? Did he collect and put the card in a shoe box with his other cards? How did a T206 manage to survive for this long? How did this card survive moving, kids, deaths, paper drives, fires and insects. Why didn't someone throw the card away when they were spring cleaning? How many people owned this card during the past 98 years? What was the person thinking when they wrote something on the back of the card? What happened that caused the big crease down the middle?


Along those same lines - where was the card purchased? Was it a Coupon that someone bought in a bar in the French Quarter of New Orleans? If so, where was it during the hurricanes and floods?

I wish I could track just one card from it's purchase through the next 98 years, but I guess that is impossible.

Rick