So I walked into a card store today, and was puzzled by...

[rhettyeakley]

Funny but true story.

A few years back at one of the local card shops by my house here in Boise that has some vintage but not a ton. I was looking through a bargain box and found (3) 1914-1915 Cracker Jack cards in the $1 each box. They were real but the shop owner had never seen a real one and thought they were cheap fakes because they were on such thin paper. I paid him much more than what he had on the cards (I want to say I gave him $300 for them) and showed him how to tell they were real. He was pretty happy to get the extra money. He had gotten them in a collection of mostly 1950-60’s cards and just never thought in a million years that they were actually that old. Unfortunately they weren’t major stars or anything, just 3 pretty decent condition commons.

He sells almost exclusively newer cards and some Pokémon but I’ve never seen another pre-war card in the shop.

[tschock]

When my better half and I drive around and regularly pass any business that never seems to have any activity, one of us will eventually make the comment about another business that's just a front for money laundering.