I will give you the brother-in-law price but.....

[Leon]

Originally Posted by E93

That is a great window into the hobby 50 years ago. Thanks for posting. And yeah, Lionel Carter may have been the first collector for whom condition was really important. Mint then was not necessarily mint by today's standards, but it was sometimes. I remember when his collection was sold off a few years ago, there were a lot of 8s and 9s in the '40's and '50's stuff.
JimB

Agreed Jim. A friend and I were speaking yesterday and these documents from the 1970's and back are a window to the past that probably won't be there going forward. Nowadays, no one writes letters except for emails and they are not kept, for the most part.