Bob Himes was a collector who lived in the Philadelphia area many years ago and sold baseball autographs, mainly 3x5s and cuts. His sales lists were typewritten and Xeroxed (remember that term?) and mailed to collectors on his mailing list. His lists were, like Jack Smalling and Conrad Anderson's, torture on the eyes but Bob sold things inexpensively and had a lot of players, so if you were looking for a 3x5 and Bob had it, it was usually cheaper to buy it from Bob than to write to the player yourself.
These were the days long before the internet, so the only way of advertising was in the few trade publications that were available, or by direct mail. I bought many, many autographs from Bob over the years.
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