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| A digital throwing card created for Burt's throwing card project |
In this post, we honor the magic collector whose vision and drive led to the creation of
Propelled Pasteboards. Burton Sperber was a generous and enthusiastic magic collector who, in or around 2011, set out to create a published checklist of throwing cards, which he intended to distribute for free to interested collectors. He acquired a remarkably large collection of cards and contacted a group of historians and collectors -- including the three contributors to this site -- to help create his ambitious project. The selfless nature of this effort is reflected in his proposed copyright notice:
"No Copyright © 2011.
All information in this checklist may be reproduced or transmitted in any
form or by any means whether electronic, mechanical, or photocopied hand typed or
written without permission from anyone.
No Rights Reserved"
Sadly, Burt's untimely death ended the effort -- but his vision and inspiration drove the creation of this site.
