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Posted By: barrysloate

Bob- one related story that I recall about SCD is you could auction great stuff and not even picture the lot you were selling.

I once got a small consignment of cards and told the owner I would be happy to auction them by themselves. Maybe there were a dozen cards and I took out an eighth of a page ad. You might think I was just selling some odds and ends but one of the cards was an E90-1 Joe Jackson in VG condition! Imagine doing that today. The print was tiny and it was just buried in the middle of a page somewhere. And the card still sold for $1700, which was unheard of in those days. No hype, no color picture, no 400 word description filled with superlatives. Just a great baseball card. And everybody who needed to find it found it! I probably ran more than a 100 auctions in SCD of all different sizes but that one little one always stays with me. Those days are gone forever!