Brian,
Thanks.
Back in the early 1990's, I was in college and on the weekends, I would travel around to auctions, antique stores, flea markets, antique shows and something called The Collectors Caravan which would come to Indianapolis.
Being a poor college student, I didn't have much money to buy the good things I found so I would tell Ted Koch about them. Either he would have me buy them for him (and be reimbursed) or he would go and look at the stuff for himself.
After a really good find for him, I was wanting to trade some of my cards for one of his (trimmed) Large Gypsy Queen commons just to have something cool in my collection. As a thank you for me finding him some good things, he said instead of just a common, he would trade me the Keefe instead.
Later, after he moved to Florida, I didn't know it but he sold the other five large GQ's in a Lew Lipset auction. He also sold the "good find" which was a small stack of Curtis Ireland candy cards (including a Ty Cobb that I think Leon just sold this past Summer) and some American Caramel cards.
If I had known he was going to sell the Curtis Ireland cards, I would have tried to buy them before they went to auction...... UGH.
Oh well,
David
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