This card has been with me for 38 years. I bought it in a live auction at a Milwaukee card show at Gonzaga Hall in the Spring of 1981. I was 12 years old(sound familiar?) and beat out all the older guys in bidding. I knew it was something special, at the next show a guy offered me 3X what I paid for it . I got into game used collecting shortly after and that turned out to be the only T206 I ever bought. Never had a desire to grade it, just loved the pureness of the card, and through the decades I could pull it out and gaze at it and it would take me back to 1981 and I can remember how it felt at 12 winning that auction. Always puts a smile on my face.
Fast forward to 2017. After reading all the informative threads, especially yours Ted, I decided to re-enter the T206 domain and bought some graded cards. A full 36 years between T206 purchases, I still love the raw.
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