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Posted By: Vognar Julie

It wasn't the kids; it was their fathers. Picture grabbing a handful of card out of your cigarette pack. It's got these built-in creases, but when it's stretched out, it's too long to fit in your jacket pocket. Having once opened it, instead of taking the trouble to carefully fold the card back up the way it should be, you shrug and fold the thing in half and cram it in your pocket.
20 years ago, you couldn't find a un-creased center on a T202 in California. i started calling the center crease the western crease. We were pretty dumb back then. At the '88 National in San Francisco I first saw a T205; there were 5 of them, glowing and perfect, lying on some dealer's table--he wqsn't there (all of those eastern dealers vowed never to return to S.F.). I thought, gee, those look beautiful--but I never saw one before, so I'm not about to buy one. I knew T206, T202--and then nothing until Goudy. I'd been collecting since '79.

Julie