Piedmonts are getting expensive.

[tiger8mush]

Hard to imagine a card being inserted into a pack of cigarettes which is then boxed & loaded & shipped in a rickety truck/train, placed onto a convenient store shelf by a stock boy, handled by a customer, opened by a smoker, the card tossed aside and likely handled by a kid, all in the cards first couple months of existence and looking anything close to as mint as that card looks. Not to mention surviving the NEXT 100 years.

[ullmandds]

Agreed...and after pulling the card from the pack you'd have to handle it with kid gloves and place it somewhere safe and virtually never touch it again for 100 years? What are the odds???

Originally Posted by tiger8mush

Hard to imagine a card being inserted into a pack of cigarettes which is then boxed & loaded & shipped in a rickety truck/train, placed onto a convenient store shelf by a stock boy, handled by a customer, opened by a smoker, the card tossed aside and likely handled by a kid, all in the cards first couple months of existence and looking anything close to as mint as that card looks. Not to mention surviving the NEXT 100 years.

[conor912]

Originally Posted by tiger8mush

Hard to imagine a card being inserted into a pack of cigarettes which is then boxed & loaded & shipped in a rickety truck/train, placed onto a convenient store shelf by a stock boy, handled by a customer, opened by a smoker, the card tossed aside and likely handled by a kid, all in the cards first couple months of existence and looking anything close to as mint as that card looks. Not to mention surviving the NEXT 100 years.

spot on. no effing way. this is exactly why i don't buy anything pre-war above EX.

[brewing]

Originally Posted by tiger8mush

Hard to imagine a card being inserted into a pack of cigarettes which is then boxed & loaded & shipped in a rickety truck/train, placed onto a convenient store shelf by a stock boy, handled by a customer, opened by a smoker, the card tossed aside and likely handled by a kid, all in the cards first couple months of existence and looking anything close to as mint as that card looks. Not to mention surviving the NEXT 100 years.

I can easily imagine a card being placed in a book shortly after being pulled from a pack and not being removed from the book for 80 years.



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