Back in 1990, I was a young staff sergeant in the U.S. Air Force, just returning to the states after two years in Germany. I needed money to buy a car and furnish an apartment, since I had to (and wanted to) move out of the barracks.
I had a sizable pre-WWII card collection, and decided to sell all of the cards. Included in the group was an N172 Mike Kelly (Chicago portrait - Bare head) and a T227 Ty Cobb, along with a 1954 Topps Hank Aaron and a 1954 Bowman Ted Williams. There were many other cards including all the T206 Hall of Famers, N28s of Clarkson, Kelly and Keefe, an E90-2 Honus Wagner and a T3 Walter Johnson. I sold them all at a card show in Houston TX in January of 1991, for $2,700.
Over the past decade, I've managed to re-obtain examples of most of the cards, but the ones that have eluded me, and probably will for some time, are the N172 Kelly, T227 Cobb, and the 1954 Aaron and Williams.
If I could go back, those are the four cards I'd keep.
Steve
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