"Wes Chormicle" wrote in message
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My 11 yr old son has at last started to get "the bug". For Christmas I gave
him a set of the Whitman "penny" boards from 1909 to the present. I also
brought home about 50 pounds of Wheats for him to search through. After going
through them all, he only had about 12 holes left to fill. Every Friday he
wants me to bring home another bucket to search through. Every week I would
bring home about 10 pounds of Wheats for him. What he didn't know is that
each week I would "salt" it with 1 or 2 semi keys. They are very low grade,
like AG3 to G4 at best. Now we're down to the nitty gritty! 4 holes left....
09 S, 09 S VDB, 14 D and 31 S.

I got him to start trying to fill all the 1959 to the present rather then
worry about the last 4 keys. Hopefully when he's a lot older he'll look back
and smile at the effort his dad went to!


C'mon, Wes. That's cheating. No one should be able to nearly complete a
Lincoln set in one month of searching and then be expected to develop into a
patient collector. It took me years of searching and lawn mowing to complete
my set (minus the 1922), and that was in the pre-Memorial days. Then it took
another thirty years to upgrade it to an overall EF-BU grade.

I would have had him attack the 1959 to present album first. If he completed it
without losing interest first, THEN you could have fed him those bags of
"unsearched" wheaties. Next would come the bags of unsearched Morgans, eh?

Bruce