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Bob Rousseauyeah, getting this one really made me see the light about lesser grade cards. I think this one is one of the great images in the hobby- plus a bonus that it's Matty ("Matty At Play in the Field of Dreams"). I realized the image was what was important to me- not the borders or edges (somehow, they seem even moreso like just the picture frame for this one). I could have waited and spent some more hundreds of dollars to get one with better borders/edges- but the image is really what I wanted (I can't remember how much I paid for this- something between $130-$160 as I recall, off ebay about 3 years ago) and I was pleased with what shape the image is in.
I once bought a lot of reprints of T206s and other early cards from Larry Fritsch's company cause I just wanted to put them in a binder and look at the images without worrying if corners got bent, etc. And of course, they're all spic and span and have sharp corners, etc., and it was cool to be able to page through them. But, like someone mentioned in the long PSA 1 thread, you get a different thrill out of holding a "real" one- and I like that this one shows it's age. It obviously lived out in the wild awhile before it got encapsulated in that plastic- how was it kept? How many people have owned it? How many after someone bothered to set it aside nearly a century ago?
06-27-2005, 11:41 PM
this one goes out...
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