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Posted By: Ed McCollum

Both about twenty years ago. Remember them both well, as T206s are the only vintage card I collect, and I had about five at the time. One was a Three Finger Brown portrait at a porch sale about a block from the house we rented. The old guy wanted $50 for it, I had $20, and we could never work it out. The other was the same summer, a woman, recently divorced, was having a sale in her suburban garage. She had stacks and stacks of mainly newer cards, and five t206s, the only one I recognized at the time being Cobb, bat off shoulder. It had a price tag of $450 on it, which she said her husband had paid for it, and what she wanted out of it. Seems he left her for a younger woman, and left all his cards behind to. Being a newly wed, I still had that $20 in my pocket, and that was all....