Five years ago I posted about my 1910 E27 American Caramel Teddy's Trophies collection. In the past five years I have made a little more progress on this set.
Five years ago I only had ten of the thirty cards in this set. I am up to twenty five of thirty now, maybe. I say maybe because one is missing. I can't find the Hartbeast card. I can see where I bought it on eBay but I don't know where it is now. It has to be around here somewhere. When I was putting these all together to scan them I noticed that they are so soft and flimsy that they stick to one another like crazy. I lost the Zebra like four times today and the Gorilla twice. They kept sticking to other cards and I couldn't find them minutes after having them. That Hartbeast is probably stuck to another card somewhere here in my desk.
That first group of cards I scanned were all oriented the same way. This second group I had to scan twice because when I put them on the scanner I turned all the backs the same direction and three came out upside down on the front and I had to redo it. I would like to have scanned them all in order but the couple vertical cards in the set messed that up for me and I had to do them separate.
It is kind of hard to imagine but I have a bunch of doubles too. These cards are 114 years old and I have doubles, that is crazy to me. I have kept my cost to a few dollars a card on this set. I have done that by buying off condition and in many cases I bought them in lots. Buying in lots is what created the doubles.
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Hope you track down that Hartbeast card. Never heard of that animal. I really like the design of this set. Best of luck with your set build.
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