Yes it is. He handed them out in the day of mail order or Phone order. He started a trend I think with one of first National show offered cards to exhibators like this to hand out. Card would end up in your stack of cards bought instead of pocket to be lost later
Mr Mint wanted a MINT card example of every card
He was always fair to me when I bought either via mail or at Shows.
Pre Internet when it cost 20 cents to mail a card or less then $2.00 to mail a box of cards that might be worth $100 to the next person on the list.
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Robert
“It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone. You count on it, rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops. Today, October 2, a Sunday of rain and broken branches and leaf-clogged drains and slick streets, it stopped and summer was gone.”
― A. Bartlett Giamatti
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