Night Owl Cards

(*music fans, go to the end) The National is this coming next week and I know several collectors who are attending. Many of them attend every year or close to it.   I'll be in my usual spot, spending much less money and happy not to deal with crowds. Meanwhile, I have some cards here from someone who is planning to go to the big show in Chicago, or maybe is already on the way to digging in discount boxes.   Some of you have also recently received cards from Stuart at S.R. '75 Cards . So this is my turn to decipher what he sent, because a lot of it was from that black hole collecting period of the early 2000s. As an example, I had neatly separated the envelope into cards I needed and cards I didn't. Per usual, I turned the duplicate cards over to signal to my future self that I had them.   One card on its reverse side at the top of the stack caught my eye.     Card-creating gentlemen, this is why you always serial-number your cards in gold foil. I was looking at ...