Much has been written in both the hobby and mainstream media about our "Texas find" - an absolutely massive collection of complete sets ranging between 1948 and 2007 consigned by a single family and originating from a single collector. Hundreds of thousands of cards many of which are featured in this catalog highlighted by an extraordinary group of 1952 Topps a complete set of which was offered in our last auction and a full low number run which is featured in this one. Equally amazing however was the collector's enormous collection of signed cards mostly from the immensely popular 1952 issue. Upon our first visit with the family in the spring of 2016 we opened a box of cards and were greeted with a large number of signed '52s - more than we had ever seen in one place. The process of sorting and examining dozens of boxes of loose cards yielded additional cards from the set - sometimes one or two other times small piles. Eventually we had a collection of nearly 700 signed cards from the issue! Surely such a large group is an extreme rarity in the hobby. It was that first visit in the spring however that uncovered the greatest of all the rarities. Accompanied by an extremely advanced longtime collector we opened that very first box of signed '52 Topps and pulled out a small pile from the back of the group. We began flipping through the cards and upon encountering the Campos instinctively went through the same exercise we always do when encountering a '52 Campos - we flipped the card over to look at the back. Incredibly we were greeted with the mark of one of the issue's greatest rarities - the "black star" variation. We knew instantly that due to the card's rarity we were likely holding the only autographed example of this card that the hobby had ever seen! First documented in 2006 the "black star" variation on the Campos card is a simple print anomaly - a black outline around one of the two red stars on the card reverse. Our friends at Robert Edward Auctions were the first to offer the card declaring the variation "truly one of the great rarities of all modern cards." The card has routinely sold for thousands of dollars with only about 75 graded examples known despite the immense numbers of 1952 Topps Campos cards in circulation. Forbes writer and hobbyist David Seideman took it upon himself to reach out to Joe Orlando of PSA and Larry Studebaker of SGC to determine the rarity of the piece for an article he wrote on this v