Duplicates

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Posted By: identify7

When I was not quite a teen I traded my baseball card doubles for cards which I did not have from the set. I think that many of us did the same.

Recently I corresponded with someone who may view his duplicates similarly to the way I currently view mine. Focusing on the Old Judge issues, as an example, two identical poses of the same player manufactured in the same year can look differently due to wear, tinting, original photo quality, accident, and other characteristics of the card.

If the two cards appear different, there is reason (in my mind) to keep them both. Then when you come across a potential triplicate, which appears different from the other two, do you buy it?

In the Old Judge set, one could compile many examples of the same card with this collecting approach. I believe the same is true for t206, batter up, w517, and maybe many sets.

Does anyone collect multiple examples of the same card? I do.