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Originally Posted by bbcard1
Granted this is sort of like using a corked bat...but...here's what I am doing about Mr. Wagner.
Years ago (two decades plus five), I met an old collector who had actually accumulated his collection by hanging around duckpin bowling alleys as a boy and gathering cards from cigarette packs discarded in the streets. He had a few hundred cards.
He told me about how all his friends were looking for a Wagner because everyone had heard of him. He finally found a picture in a magazine, pasted it to a Piedmont card and traded it for a bunch of cards to one of his buddies.
Years later, I consigned a collection from Lynchburg, about 50 miles away. Among it was a picture of wagner pasted on a Piedmont back. Have always wondered if it could have travelled boy to boy over the 50 miles to get into the collection. It is no doubt from the same period. I eventually procured the card for my own collection and have had it ever since.
That will my T206 Wagner and I am very cool with that. Not sure a real one would mean more to me.
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Not only did that make me smile, it also warmed my heart.
In my opinion you just illustrated the essence of collecting.....