[frankbmd]

Originally Posted by frankbmd

Provenance



I'm the fourth owner of my Waddell, that I purchased from Soutter who got it from the son of Nelson Tisdel.

Since the thread has turned to the topic of provenance, after I purchased this card on eBay, I reached out to the seller about the back. I asked her if by chance she knew who Gordon Soutter was. She laughed and added that she was Mrs. Soutter and that Gordon was her husband. She then told me that her husband and Nelson Tisdel’s son traded baseball cards in the early 1940s and that he had kept the collection intact since then.

Naturally I then asked if there were other similar backs in the collection. She said there were. I tried to make an offer to buy the entire collection, to which she replied, “We only sell on eBay.”

To which I replied, ”Expletive deleted”