Near miss...Cards that you've personally taken out of existence...

[tbob]

You have to wonder how much of a role Nature played in the fact so few Louisiana issues still exist and are in the hobby: T213 Coupons, Victorys, etc. It seems like nothing ever surfaces anymore (last 35 years) out of Louisiana and I don't remember hardly any collectors from the Pelican state. There used to be one guy on ebay years ago with the user id vendomecat who won whatever he wanted. Seems like his name was Mike Schwartz (?) and he had a restaurant and real estate in New Orleans. Nice guy, we communicated several times but someone mentioned that they had heard that he had had business reversals and the restaurant was gone along with most of his collection. Hope that's not true but I haven't heard from him in a long, long time.