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09-23-2014, 10:16 AM
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Hi Brian.
My collecting of Seattle Popcorn cards has been in such a drought for years. I have about 72% of the set, and apparently all of the "easy" ones. I did pick up 5 at a PNWSCA show but that was 3-4 shows ago. There have been none on ebay (that I need) for at least 3 years. None are showing up in the auctions. There was a group of 25 on the BST board a year or so ago. The member stated he would only sell them as a group. I needed only one of them so I passed, not wanting to acquire 24 duplicates. Now I'm having second thoughts. I'm compensating somewhat be collecting other sets like Seattle Zeenuts (hi Andrew) and other Seattle items which are also scarce. I also started on T206's and have has a blast on the BST board. I'm up to 281 T206's now which is a lot of compensating. 
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09-24-2014, 04:32 PM
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Boot prints
Hey Dave
I thought you could just mosey down to the stadium and look down on the ground for discarded popcorn cards. If you don't mind a few shoe prints on the cards, you should be able to pick up hundreds of them... Oh wait 
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09-24-2014, 10:01 PM
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09-24-2014, 11:29 PM
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What Brian L is referring to is the story I told him about going to Rainiers games as a kid, mostly 1958 to 61, but as early as 54. It was a quarter for a bleacher ticket and I usually splurged a dime for a box of popcorn. I would look at the "card" inside the box of course, but would just throw it on the floor. Nobody I knew collected the things -- after all, they weren't REAL baseball cards (like Topps). And yes, the stands would be littered with them after the game. If I only knew then what I know now . . .
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09-24-2014, 11:33 PM
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Oh man...
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09-25-2014, 02:45 AM
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Yeah, this resonates. My 1911 Obak's set is a tough slog. It seems like decades elapse between acquisitions.
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09-25-2014, 05:35 AM
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For me it`s been V100-Willards Chocolate. For 10 years it seemed there were always new ones popping up on ebay or at shows. The last few years there have only been the same BINs on ebay and nothing at the shows including the National-guess they are all happy in collections. Meanwhile I`m stuck at 3/4 of the set. Patience is the lesson.
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09-25-2014, 08:07 AM
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The endless slow hunting is the fun of it. If I can add a few new Exhibit cards to some of the sets I collect every year I think of it as a good year. On most of them, the obscure stuff, I end up getting cards only when a group is discovered. My latest, took about ten years to get, the only Exhibit card of Hawaiian surfing legend and Olympic champion swimmer Duke Kahanamoku:
 As for price etc., when it comes to cards you may see only once in several years you pay what it takes and take whatever condition you can get.
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