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Originally Posted by brianp-beme
I assume the 'Goudey remainders' sold by Fawcett were the 24 card sheets? Sounds intriguing. Is that where all of our Goudey sheets come from?
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"Fawcett" was John Fawcett, a professor of art at the University of Connecticut and a big collector of cards and other ephemera. In 1968 or 1969 he bought all the remaining Goudey material, including sheets, cards, samples, boxes, etc., from George Thompson, owner and longtime plant manager of the company, for $500. Fawcett was only interested in the Indian Gum material, and he sold the rest of it to interested people in the hobby, using the following flyer:
http://www1.coe.neu.edu/~dan/MF/the-sale.html
I assume that most if not all of the uncut Goudey sheets in the hobby come from this find. In the August 1, 1969 Card Collector's Bulletin, which I posted at the link below, Lionel Carter wrote about four uncut sheets of 1934 Goudeys that Donald J. McPherson had bought from Goodwin Goldfaden, but it's not clear whether Goldfaden got them from Fawcett or from someone else. The timing suggests that Goldfaden got them from Fawcett, but I'm not sure.
http://net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=218786