Mark, can you tell the story of how you acquired the Cowboy Card and the Strongman, if you have a Mckinley as well.

Dan, please share your memory on your Mckinley, and one of the others if you have one. thx looking forward to this.

I guess it's a secret.

Answers sometimes aren't as intriguing as the questions.

1. Like many of us, Mark is a collector of cards and of card images.
The two images asked of him are simply from his image collection.

2. McKinley...simply an Ebay win, nothing more, nothing less.

Sorry, Ron, I know you expected more......"it is what it is"

Rand, there are some nice images of rare cards (McKinley, WW25, etc.) in this old thread.

Also a bit of discussion on McKinley card acquisitions . . . Dan's and also a dealer who bought one as part of an entire lot of US Caramel Presidents at a live bankrupcy auction, for $600 (!!) . . . and then turned around and flipped it at the Ft Washington baseball card show for $10k!

http://www.network54.com/Forum/526604/thread/1163198626/The+rest+of+the+story-+McKinley

I was hoping for some real cloak & dagger, James Bond type stuff in the procurement of these cards. Well, the bottom line is, ya got one! I don't post often so I would just like to thank Dan for the gallery & all his hard work. I reference that gallery quite a bit. Thanks again.