E90-1 Jackson found

[jmk59]

So many cards now are in graded holders or safe deposit boxes or generally in the sort of artificial environment of modern collecting. They are scattered about and often handled as individuals, even as an individual card may make its way in and out of various set collections.

Seeing a scrapbook with attached cards is one of the few opportunities left to see cards as they historically were. Scrapbooks are a reflection of a time in someone's life a hundred years ago - the cards are captured in a historical environment, so to speak. It's the cards as they actually were back then, before they were parted out, soaked off, slabbed, bid on, mailed to many individual destinations and cycled repeatedly through the stream of commerce as individual cards.

Not sure what I'm saying here. I guess seeing cards in a scrapbook as opposed to individual collections, PSA holders, and auction sites is like seeing an animal in the wild as opposed to in a zoo.

Or maybe I just need some coffee this morning. I think it'd be nice to keep them in a scrapbook for awhile, but it doesn't make much sense so ... that won't happen.

J