[Kawika]

I have several dozen old catalogs, Mastro, REA, Goodwin, even three or four of Barry's, going back 7 or 8 years. I finally started throwing newer ones away because it was just taking up too much room. What I do now is tear out the pages that have the items I've won to keep as part of the provenance plus I save pages for items that are of particular interest. The old catalogs are a great resource of information about a myriad of cards, memorabilia etc; the only problem is that it is difficult to find something specific if you don't know which auction house or auction date to refer to. What I wish is that some enterprising type would create an index of auctioned items from all the old catalogs, scans would be good, too. Probably would require about a jillion man-hours of effort but it would be nice.