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T206CollectorI recently completed work on my latest article, which is about the Leopold M. Goulston collection of T206 cards at the New York Public Library. I invite anyone interested in this collection to read the article on my website.
The first paragraph is below:
On July 13, 1946, Robert W. Henderson, the chief librarian of the main reading room at the New York Public Library, received an amazing collection of baseball ephemera. The collection was donated to the library by Leopold Morse Goulston, who was a former vice president of the Boston Braves. Goulston donated the collection in memory of his friend, Leo J. Bondy, who had died 2 years earlier. Bondy was a baseball colleague of Goulston’s -- he was vice president and treasurer of the New York Giants. The collection Goulston donated included over 1,000 items related to pre-war baseball, including photographs, prints, rare cartoons, books, souvenirs, and, most interesting for baseball card collectors, a large collection of pre-war baseball cards. With Goulston’s permission, a few of the collection’s items were donated by the library to the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York, including a trophy baseball from 1867 that had been presented to Goulston by the A.G. Spalding Company, as well as a “cheater’s bat” -- studded with nails and painted black -- dating from 1890. The library kept the baseball cards and pasted them into albums. While this appears at first blush to be an unfortunate effort to attempt preservation, the fact that the cards were pasted into albums is one of the secrets to the library’s ability to maintain the collection for the past 62 years.
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