Who is the scarce 1948 Leaf boxing card??

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Posted By: Carl Lamendola

Both myself and my friend, Jim have owned two different Graziano cards. About 10-15 years ago at a local flea market in the Buffalo Area a guy had one in a book. I traded him a built-up Lost in Space Aurora model robot for it. A big non-sports dealer, Mark Angert in Ft. Lauderdale told me he would give me $1500 for it. The next day it was Fedex-ed to him. He sold it to someone else. It had one real bad corner on it (chewed up). A few years after that, my other friend Paul called me from Ft. Washington and told me that it was on dispaly in an auction house's case 1 of 2/3 known to exist. I think it was Soetheby's. IT sold for I think about $8K....A few years after that my friend Jim picked one up for Greg Manning's Steve Novella at the time for I think $6K. Anyway, he had to sell it, and I think it was his I think that it was his that eventually sold for $17K. I also was told (but have never seen one)that other skipped nos exist. So, there have to be more...keep hunting !!!