I randomly stumbled upon an awesome pair of cards being sold together on eBay. I thought there was a solid chance they would stay within a range I was comfortable with but figured they would still end up selling for more than I wanted to spend at the time, so a pass would be the end result of it all.
Much to my delight a final price of under $20 delivered including tax yielded these two beautiful pre-1900 pickups. Both hail from the 1888 N2 Allen & Ginter American Indian Chiefs set and suffer from paper loss as the biggest detracting element.