1887 Kalamazoo Bats

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Posted By: Rhys

In about 1999 on ebay about 4 K-Bats surfaced out of nowhere, all of which were black mounts. Other than that I have seen about 3 others on ebay in 6 years and about 3-4 in auction houses. That makes 10-11 I have seen in the last 6 years. I have also seen a few trimmed ones which makes the total that I have seen to about 13 in the last 6 years, these were not duplicates. This is more than Bruce has seen and perhaps some of these were duplications (like Lipsets). Just my 2 cents worth on the population report and I have not seen them all so there are many more than 13 if you include private collections, the museum he talked about etc. They are certainly rare but there are more of these out there than other items from the same vintage.