What is Your Greatest Non-Card Discovery ?

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Posted By: jay behrens

I've had a number interesting non-card finds. I picked up a first edition of Walter Camp's Football at the MN state fair from a book seller there for $5. Another great find was a nicely bound group scripts from The Banana Splits show I found at an antique store for $50. From the notes that were written inside, I figured that they had to be the scripts that the editors used as there were notes where to insert cartoons and comercials.

When I decided to start selling off my Banana Splits collection, word somehow got to someone high up at Hana-Barbera and they wanted to buy anything that wasn't sold comercially. I mentioned the scripts, among numerous other things I had acquired, and he was very interested in the scripts. I sent a scan of the front page listing all the episodes for the scripts. I got a response back for scans of more pages to confirm the episodes. Turns out the scripts were from the second season. According to the person, all second season material, scripts, films, etc "disappeared" in 1974. I ended up selling them the scripts, some prototypes for different toys and lot of promotional material that was sent by both H-B and the networks to the NBC affiliates that carried the show. This was the seed money that built my Indian collection and ultimately my return to baseball cards.

Jay

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