09-02-2015, 01:21 PM
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Rich Klein
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Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Plano Tx
Posts: 4,499
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Originally Posted by saltire
When I re-entered the hobby in the early 1990s, I had to use mail order and pre-ebay auctions to boost my collection since I live overseas.
I remember picking up a lot of great stuff from Solomon Cramer, who ran terrific regular auctions. I think my best pickup from Solomon was a lot of about 35 autographed Tigers cards from 50s-early 70s for only about $20. The lot included several of the 1968 team (though not necessarily on a 1968 card) - Kaline, Horton, Lolich, Freehan, Brown, Hiller, Wert, Stanley, Tracewski, Dobson, Wilson, Lasher, Patterson, McAuliffe, Matchick, Price and best of all Joe Sparma and Mayo Smith.
Solomon seems to have dropped out of the hobby shortly after ebay established themselves.
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I talk to Solomon every once in a rare while (he even reads these board on occasion) and he is happily married (I forgot if any kids yet) and running his rental car business. I'll tell him you said hello
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