Where were the cards for all those years?
I was in the shower earlier (it's OK if you want to picture that b/c I'm a fairly sexy dude) and I was thinking "Where were the cards all those years? Who had them?"
Card collecting didn't become really big until the 1970's and 80's right? It seems like there must be millions of T206s out there and a fair amount of other pre-war sets.
So, if for all those early years... 20's, 30's, 40's, etc there really wasn't a "demand" to collect cards, where were all these cards and why did people hang on to them? It just seems to me that most of them would have been discarded as junk or slowly lost to time.
Then it makes me think that if there are so many cards still left 100+ years after the fact, then how many of these things were probably produced during the original production runs.
I'm sure there are answers to some of these questions but I think of random stuff in the shower (you can stop thinking about that now).
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