Would Have, Could Have, Should Have. (What If?)

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Posted By: Anonymous

my dad got me collecting when I was about 10 or so (1982-3)but he had collected when he was younger and he put all of his 50's topps and bowmans in plastic sandwich baggies neatly and put them in a few shoeboxes. (52 mantles 51 Bowman mantles etc) He swore to me he had 7 or 8 of them. When I turned 16 he said ok you've been on this for a few years now, lets go get my collection to add to yours. (His was at my grandmothers house in her furnished basement closet) When we got there, she told us "I threw them away about 2 weeks ago, I did not think anyone wanted them." The bad part was 2 weeks earlier I was ill, so we did not make our weekly trip to grandmas...I still cringe at seeing prices of the 50's cards.