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Message:: [QUOTE="desertgem, post: 829707, member: 15199"]I have the Spadone book, and some "errors" or "varieties" were what we would call now as damage. Gouges, marks, etc. would often seem like the largest of discoveries. Most error/variety collectors today ignore it mostly, almost never quoted or referred to.  But, many books issued primarily before the vast reservoir of knowledge ( and sometimes just as erroneous ) suffered the same problems of what actually was being seen by the collectors. Print material was it, and much was out of date before it was published. Breen's encyclopedias are often criticized today as having unsubstantiated and "made up" data. I hadn't thought about the Spadone book probably for 10+ years. had to go see if I still had it. I don't know if there was any organized effort against the book, or people just stopped referring to it. If anything, collectors have become more technical in their knowledge. I checked to see if Amazon still had it, and they have used editions for under a few dollars. But as we see more of ebay sensationalism, we might remember this quote from a book reviewer on Spadone's book :Jim[/QUOTE]