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Originally Posted by atx840
From chatting with Tim, there is little know about these backs and not sure they have done much digging. |
Thanks Chris. I love this part of the description - two bottles of Cabernet and I could begin approaching this, but I would never mention "great-grandfather's seabag."
"The brand name's longevity explains the survival of multi-themed Pirate cards in reasonable quantities, and the timeliness of the ballplayers accounts for their abbreviated shelf life. Although, for a month or two during 1912, the athletes must have received appreciative glances as a serviceman's momentary glimpse of home, too few were made to allow hoarding and transporting in great-grandfather's seabag. And, by extension, virtually none of the Pirates "mustered out" with their original owners. So few, and from so far away, they're essentially unrepresented among domestic or English attic discoveries of the past, present, or future."