This thread has helped me understand something about strip cards...
Most of our collections commenced with traditional cards. And as observed above, few of us collected postcards. We didn't appreciate them, they weren't at all like our traditional sports cards. I agree with that thinking. And I too now collect some postcards. (Especially those Cardinals postcards from the mid 50's, they're ugly, send yours to me.) When I started collecting old cards I had an aversion for strip cards. They weren't anything like what I had been collecting. Similar to the postcard thought process. But now I actually like W511's, 12's, and 14's. I had been enamored with W515's, too, but I'm thinking I need to move them to get more W514's... So the acceptance of postcards is a step away from the traditional sports card, a step similar to moving toward Exhibit cards or W-strip cards.
And in the spirit of docpatlv's post, Colgans Chips are round, black and white, with crap quality control as to focus and centering. Only a fool would collect those. I can swap some 2x3 shiny stuff for them so you can get back on a good collecting track.
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