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Posted By: T E

One way I know of is from untouched estates, which are growing rarer but still exist. I bought out the paper contents of one such place in New England a few years ago and opened a box from the attic that had been buried away only to find several 19th century t cards-only one was baseball. It looked like the original owner had stuck them in this box right after pulling them. Probably had little interest in the cards, was just putting them aside and forgot about them.

There is one fellow I know who pulled a tobacco tin out of an trunk, opened it and found a stack of untouched T206s. This is about five or six years ago. Again, it appeared that the owner was after the tobacco, not the cards, and was putting the cards aside as an after-thought.