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The 2021 MMBC Show

First an Overview

After skipping the 2020 show due to the
Pandemic, the 2021 show was postponed from
April until September hoping that things would
be back to normal (or at least close) by then.
Well things were not back to normal but the
show still went on. Despite travel restrictions we
still had 3 people come from out of the country to
St. Louis for the show. Jose Escobar made the
trip from Colombia, Mauricio Pons came from
Mexico and Rotem Ben came from Israel. We
had a couple of last minute cancelations or that
international total would have been a little
higher. It also didn’t help that there were travel
restrictions preventing many Canadian collectors
from attending. Even with the reduced
international collectors and fewer collectors from
within the U.S., I would call the show a success.

It was strange to me wondering through the
lobby Thursday evening and especially Friday at
the lack of people I saw. Typically you will run
into a dozen or more people either sitting in the
lobby visiting or passing through. Prior to the
time of the board meeting Rotem, Pete and I
saw 2. At the board meeting we learned of
some last minute cancellations and that (before
those cancelations) there would be 18 venders
and about 30 tables for the show. Normally
there is 45-50 tables depending on the year. At
the meeting we had about 1/2 the normal
number but still had 50+ items for the annual
auction. We had set up a zoom meeting and
had 1/2 dozen or so people sign into that. With
fewer people there was also les bidding on auction items, although there were quite a few

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