What is it about vintage that makes it carry more weight than your average card? Vintage has special qualities that no other card can match. Its powers are so great that it has the ability to conquer the one equalizer that many other cards encounter and can't counter: Duplication. For an average card, say anything from the late 1970s to now, if I obtain a card I have already, 9,999 times out of 10,000 it's going in the dupes stack, where it is ignored for the rest of its days, unless it gets plucked off the scrap heap like some sort of misfit toy for a trade -- at last a purpose! But a vintage dupe? I treat that card like it's the first one in my collection. I slide it into a page next to the exact same card. It is practically royalty, receiving that place of honor, just like an original. That's the power that it owns. I received some great old Dodgers cards from Bob of the best bubble a few days ago. The vintage cards were dupes and what does that matter? They're ...
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