Show interesting discoveries made about a card after already owning it

[brianp-beme]

Some great and varied responses...I especially like the Rose Postcard and Jesse Owens stories.

Here is another one from my collecting. I purchased a lot of 3 lower condition M116 cards (shown below) from an Ebay auction about 10 years ago. I was pretty much interested in the Curtis and Gardner cards, as I did not have them, as I already had a F. Smith. A couple of months after receiving the lot of 3, I finally had the chance to add them to my collection. Well, I discovered that the F. Smith had a different team designation (Boston Americans instead of Chicago Americans, the designation on the card I already had in my collection).

Turns out by a complete stroke of luck, (I honestly would have not noticed the team designation difference if I had not already had a F. Smith card) I had accidentally discovered an unknown M116 variation. The card I discovered is still unique...and someone out there in auctionland owns it, and it perhaps is part of a master set that only they could possess.

Brian