Used to chase nm-mt stuff, graded, but that is not me.
The cards I owned as a kid were early’60’s and I handled the **ll out of them. We all did. So a perfect card is nothing I owned for long.
I chase VGExish stuff these days and have been selling off the high grade prewar stuff I have. There is something about a rougher card that I find attractive. Maybe it’s the idea of owning something that some other kid kinda like me liked having.
Recently I started a Japanese Menko type set, starting with die cut and round menko from the late ‘40s and early fifties. Thinking about kids who lived through the horror of WW2 brought it all home to me. I prefer cards that were played with and wonder where on the island they came from. Maybe one day I will get overseas, maybe not.
Baseball is cool.
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T206 154/518 second time around
R312 49/50
1962 Topps 598/598 super set 694/697
...whatever I want
Last edited by drmondobueno; 06-05-2018 at 12:51 PM.
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