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Posted By: John

Don’t be surprised Paul, I bid on this card once before in Mastro although not heavy 5k or so. I thought it would fill a hole for me and my set, I’m ok with the description that Mastro had, they made it sound as if fibers were added and it was rebuilt a bit etc. They sort of passed over the whole re-back thing but I guess the back from the other card technically had period fibers in it.LOL

Seriously that was really misleading description…..shame on Mastro, but also shame on me for not catching the back factory.

This card if it had the right back I would be happy to have for my placed bid on eBay it fills a hole and looks great, I’m at a cross roads when it comes to the Plank card, I need him for my set but I also really pride myself on eye appeal in my cards, so I have a very little in the way of choices. My choices are pay up to 40-50k+ for one that looks good say a VG card, which I will go for in the heritage auction…or get a filler card that looks like a dog chewed on it from 1909 till 2008 then coughed into a holder. For me I would rather have a presentable card that has been altered in some sort of fashion for 10-12k than a beater or just not have the card at all…

I would also add that if given the choice of a trimmed 150 Plank with a sharp image and a VG Plank from the 350 I would take the trimmed Plank for less money with the better image, I’d save 20k and be happier…

Every collector draws the line somewhere what’s the phrase that’s all the rage around here…collect what you want…