Nice Story on Leon Luckey

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Posted By: Bruce Dorskind

We just received September/October 2008 issue of
Beckett's Graded Card Investor.

There is a lovely profile story on Leon Luckey

For those of you interested, and who have not met
Leon, the story features a charming photo of Leon
with his daughter.

When asked by BGCI what are the most difficult type cards
in the hobby, Leon lists:

Four Base Hits
Just So
Niagara Baking
Washington Times
Fan Cigarettes


We know of only collector who has examples of four of the five of these
types in his collection. Said collector looks at, but does not post on
the Board.

Does anyone know of anyone else who has four of the five.

We assume Leon is the only person with a Fan Cigarette?

Nice story and best wishes, Leon.


Bruce Dorskind
America's Toughest Want List

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Posted By: Steve Murray

I'm reasonably sure that D.G. has four of the five.

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Posted By: Dave F

Leon-

Congrats on the article.



Bruce-

Are you finally about to go the route of scarcity over high grade?

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Posted By: Bobby Binder

Dave,

Bruce is a type collector that wants to find the highest grade of a card in any set for his collection.

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Posted By: Frank Wakefield

Those certainly are difficult cards.


Would Hall cabinets be more difficult than Four Base Hits??


Great acknowledgment of Leon... Congrats.

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Posted By: leon

Thanks Bruce...for posting a nice story. As far as rarity I can think of a lot of cards where there are only 1-2 known....So I basically just threw out 5 off the top of my head that I know to be very difficult to obtain. Since I don't really collect cabinets I didn't think of them. And yes, I know of the board member, who actually does post occasionally, that has 4 of the 5 mentioned. It's always that darned last one, isn't it?

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Posted By: Steve

Kudos to you Leon!