E222 AWH Caramels

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Posted By: Martin Neal

I tried to purchase the cards from the seller thru an Ebay store in Lynch- burg. I drove there because I was concerned that the T206s were being damaged by removing them from an album. Indeed, the T206s (about 20 with a green Cobb) looked to have been recently removed from the album. All had paper loss with an area that was extremely light colored and fresh looking. While there, I noticed 4 odd looking minor leaguers (the awhs and awhs). Not knowing what they were, I figured they were at least worth a couple of hunderd apiece. The owner very seriously considered my offer which was about $10,000.00 less than what he eventually got for them. If I had only known....
The seller also had two autograph books with at least a hundred autos all from around 1930 including Lefty Gomez, Joe Dimaggio, Rick Ferrell, Pepper Martin, Bobby Doerr). The highlight was one of the most beautiful signatures I have ever seen, a personalized Lou Gehrig. Very exciting for me, but ultimately bittersweet.