Memories of collecting T206, T205, T210, and T209, 40 years later

[trdcrdkid]

I don't think this has been posted here before. It's the lead article from the August 1, 1949 Card Collector's Bulletin (#61), written by William J. Christie. In it he discusses his baseball card collection, which he was mounting in albums, and reminisces about collecting T206s, T205s, T210s, and T209s as a child in Spartansburg, South Carolina. He had "several large boxes of cards" by the time he went away to serve in World War I, but he never saw them again except for a box of S74s and a single T209 that survived. I'm sure that lots of tobacco card collections got thrown out by mothers whose sons went off to WWI. In 1949, Christie had close to 400 T210s and only needed four T212s. He personally remembered seeing many of the players in T210 play.

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[Jason]

Now thats an article! I would have loved to speak with this gentleman and get his view on the T210 subjects he came to know in person. Sounds like he had quite the supply of free T cards at his disposal back then.

[Vintagecatcher]

David,

Thanks for posting.

Great read.

Patrick