Night Owl Cards

I went to a card show today. You'll see what I landed in the next post, but I wanted to write today about something I heard there. I was at my usual table, hunting vintage cards while in set-completing mode. Since this dealer caters to set collectors, he has binders and binders of different vintage sets everywhere. And he attracts slightly older customers, because as much as I don't want to admit it: a) I'm old b) set collectors are old Those are relative statements, of course, but there was no mistaking the gray-haired gentlemen paging through cards along with me. There was one man talking to the dealer mainly. It was a high-level discussion: T206s and Honus Wagner and running into trimmed tobacco cards. It's stuff I'll probably never worry about in my life. Another gray-haired man joined the conversation and the discussion turned to removing stains from cards, and soaking cards, something that both the dealer and the gray-haired man had apparently do...