[Exhibitman]

I was ready to post until I saw the "and happy" part

I paid top prices for these but did I overpay? Hard to say. I do know that they're gonna have to pry them from my cold, dead fingers [or make me a hell of an offer]:





Victor "Young" Perez autographed PC. He was a flyweight champ of Tunisian descent who lived in France. Come WWII, as a Jew he was betrayed to the Nazis and sent to the Auschwitz death camp in Poland where he was forced to fight gladiatorial contests for the amusement of the guards. If he won, he was fed. If he lost, he would be executed. He never lost. He was finally murdered during a death march near the end of the war when he shared some bread with a fellow prisoner in defiance of a guard's orders. Perez's cards--there are a few--are sought after because of his story.

I bought a terribly overpriced near set to get this card: 1968 Atlantic Oil prize-winner Claude Osteen. I've never seen another of the prize-winners from the issue offered for sale in many years of working the set.