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Originally Posted by robw1959
I too remember the Card Collectors Catalogue. I recall making a large order of about 100 HOFer cards from the Topps 1960s sets in the mid-seventies, '75 or '76, but only received about four total cards of Jim Palmer and Rod Carew from the late '60s, along with most of my money back. The explanation for the shortage was that a fire had occurred.
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They had a disastrous fire that destroyed a large part of their inventory, especially their hoard of test set cards. I remember having to specify that I didn't want any fire/water damaged cards. You could smell the smoke on a lot of their cards after that fire.