Jim, that was a wonderful story, and the kind of stuff I really miss hearing about the hobby. Along the same lines, over the years I've collected a few autographs that were either GPC's to a Dr. John Davis Jr or that were signed on his stationery. After about the 4th one, I looked him up on the internet and found he had been an Optometrist in Topeka (he passed away in 2002) that had quite a collection of baseball and sports autographs as well as political etc. Just knowing that I had a small piece of a collection from someone like that, for some reason, just makes it that much more special.
It also makes me wonder if someone in 20 or 30 years will see some of the stuff we all collect and feel the same when they put it in to their collections.
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