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Brian E.I'll see what I can find in my financial records. I do have scans of the card when it was ungraded on my computer and it appears that I saved those scans (received them) in September 2005.
I will tell you that I did not purchase the card raw and have it graded. I have owned the card for at least 2 years. I don't think I bought it at auction from 19C but I do have an account with them and have won at least one or two items from them in the past.
I have something like 25 Cobb cards and just perhaps the details of the different transactions are getting muddied here.
I remember paying around 2K for the card, I honestly think I bought it direct from a board member and if that's the case it was obviously post the 19C auction. There is a decent chance that I bought it at auction from 19C.
I'll see what I can find. Regardless, the origin of how I came in possession of it, either private purchase from a board member already slabbed by GAI or from 19C already slabbed by GAI, what does it matter? I have had the card for 2 or 3 years, it is authentic and it is up for auction. Bid or don't bid...
Brian E.