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@forgerelli: I'm glad that you like them but we definitely won't be making any reprints. For one, it would undermine the cards that we are already doing. Secondly, if you think about it the cards are not expensive at all. For example, consider our card #52 in the R319-Helmar series, Hall of Famer Wilbert Robinson. A collector could have cornered the market and purchased all six that have been available for only $125.
@joeadcock: Well, in the future they will be vintage, too. And I can't imagine that they won't hold value. Consider that no Helmar hand-made card will ever have a population of more than half that of the famous T206 Wagner.
@J.McMurray: Helmar did make cards that were included within bags of potato chips and caramel corn. Now we hand-make cards in very, very small numbers.
@T206dk: If you'd like real information instead of "someone said", then just ask. No, the cards are not made in sweatshops in some third world country. They are made here, on the same 12 color press that the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art uses to produce their high-end lithographs. One of our artists, Sanjay Verma, does live in India. He is the National Award Winner there and often represents the country for foreign traveling Exhibitions. He is one of the best in the world at what he does and I am honored to work with him. He is also a really good guy. As for your fantasy that you are "pretty sure" that arch fiends are copying our Wagner card and selling them by the dozen at "flea markets"... you are better than that! We do, by the way, keep hi-res scans of every single card that has been made.
@everyone else: Thanks for your interest, your comments and your compliments. I'll post another of our Boston Garter style cards in a couple weeks since you seem to enjoy them. thanks, Charles
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