Posted By:
bruce Dorskind
We have been purveyors of the rare and extraordinary for
nearly 30 years.
Whilst we have been fortunate to have many "amazing moments"
two in particular come to mine
Back in 1979, only our third year as a collector of rare material,
we attended our first "Willow Grove show."
We had made arrangements in advance to spend an hour with
a local teenage dealer with whom we had spoken on the phone.
Our conversations with this bright young man as well as his
friend from Chicago had convinced us to focus our collecting
efforts on rare cards in extraordinary condition.
At Willow Grove, on a dreary night, we acquired four pieces for
what was then record prices for each. The cards were a Four Base
Hit, a Just So, a New York Kalamazoo Bat and a Philadelphia Kalamazoo
Bat. Three pieces remain in our collection some thirty years; two of
which are the highest graded specimens of their types.
We'll never forgot our initial meeting with Rob Lifson and his buddy,
Billy Mastro.
A year later, we were in the United Kingdom visiting our company's
UK affiliate when we were invited to a private catered dinner at
the home of Sir Edward Wharton Tigar and his lovely wife.
After dinner we visited the fourth floor of his elegant London
flat where we entered a floor with 2000 Old Judges, 500 Ramlys,
four Kalamazo Bat Team Cabinets and countless other cards.
Over the years, we developed a friendship with Sir Edward Wharton
Tigar and learned a great deal from our long conversations.
It is hard to imagine that we will ever have hobby moments quite
as amazing in the future.
Bruce Dorskind
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