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Old 06-03-2010, 07:59 PM
Yankeefan51
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Default Barry Halper

We knew Barry Halper quite well. Through the years we made six or seven trades. Among the items we swapped were Babe Ruth' s St, Mary's yearbook, one of two known 1924 Negro League World series programs. several K Bat
team cards and an advertising piece.

Barry certainly was a legendary collector. Our sense was he bought everything he liked and never asked about provence.

A number of his uniforms were pulled from the sotheby's auction because they were not authentic.

In 37 years of collecting we have seen more than two dozen pieces that werefrom the Spalding collection. It is too bad- because, properly displayed it would be a great experience for any collector. We first visited the collection in 1976 and most recently in 2002. At least 15% of the items disappeared during that time.

Bruce Dorskind
America's Toughest Want List
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