Really Cool- Letters from Tobacco Card Collectors in 1910!

[soccersaver97]

People on the board are always speculating about how people treated cards (throwing them out, etc.), but these letters offer a different perspective. These are two letters between "pen pals" from 1910-1911 and in the letters they discuss their "tobacco card" collections. They even exchanged cards, and I have one of the cards they exchanged, which was still in the original envelope with the letter. Pretty cool to see that there were even older collectors when the cards were first issued! Let me know what you guys think!

[Runscott]

super-super cool. Thanks for sharing.

[Stonepony]

Really neat! Thanks

[Wite3]

This is awesome!

Joshua

[Jaybird]

Wow. Love that. No birds' eggs or stamps for me either!

[ullmandds]

Very cool! I eat birds eggs...but i collect cards!

[rdwyer]

If anyone wants to mail me cards, I'm in. T206's please.

[I Only Smoke 4 the Cards]

This is a very cool find.

[AustinMike]

Really neat on many levels. One of which is the penmanship. My handwriting is so bad, sometimes even I can't read it. And I'm of a generation where we had penmanship lessons in school. I don't think my kids did. They've never had to write by hand much ... not even in school. I think it's becoming a lost art.

[clydepepper]

Really neat on many levels. One of which is the penmanship. My handwriting is so bad, sometimes even I can't read it. And I'm of a generation where we had penmanship lessons in school. I don't think my kids did. They've never had to write by hand much ... not even in school. I think it's becoming a lost art.


That penmanship is amazing....forty years ago, I WAS that neat...

- but I've lost a foot on my fastball...and everything else....

[Leon]

Great stuff. Thanks for sharing.

[auggiedoggy]

Very cool! I eat birds eggs...but i collect cards!

Hey! There's a niche group whose needs aren't being met by eBay! Want to get in on the ground floor? There could be tens of dollars to be made here! :D

[Gary Dunaier]

No birds' eggs or stamps for me either!

No birds' eggs for me, either... but "yes" to stamps.

[thescooper]

great, thanks for shariing