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I used to be his chauffeur, and I'd drive him around to auctions where he'd buy (with cash) what I thought was a lot of worthless crap. This crap was then taken back to his house or a warehouse where it was piled up. One day among the piles of crap I opened a box and it was full of what looked to be some sort of weird Tarot decks. I was interested in Tarot and so I asked about them and The Dude gave me one. It was I now know to be the Morgan deck. I use a more traditional Egyptian deck and so it basically just sat around until I sold it to Chronata. I'd Google'd it and this thread was the most information I could find about it anywhere.
One interesting The Dude story- somewhere he'd bought thousands of lottery machines. He had an entire warehouse full of them, where they were stacked from floor to ceiling. He was originally planning to sell them to some African nation (I forget which one) that wanted to start a national lottery, but the deal fell through. They sat in the warehouse for months or years. Eventually he found out that inside each lottery machine was a special part or something that was worth money if he could get it out. For months after that he hired day laborers to take the thousands of machines apart and remove the special part.
At first I thought The Dude was crazy, and that all the crap was worthless. But he has this ability to buy tons of cheap stuff at bargain prices and then sit on it for months or years until it's worth large amounts of money. These Morgan decks are just one example of many.
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