Calling all T206 historians - 524 card set in the 70s?

[parkerj33]

I have asked this before but still a couple of unknowns....What was the evolution of the size of the t206 checklist?

Thanks to David Kathman for posting the 1941 CCB...which has helped clarify this tremendously.

Can anyone clear up the missing pieces?


1938 Card collectors bulletin: 510 subjects in the "521" set

1939 US Card collectors catalog (Burdick): 521 subjects

1941 CCB - checklist is published which includes wagner, magie, plank, Demmit StL , O'Hara StL. Sweeney no "B" is not listed. 523 cards - magie is listed as an error but not numbered. The checklist is credited to harold myers from 1938.


*** I am guessing that between 1939 and 1941, demmit and o'hara were added as 522 and 523 to burdick's list - seems like myers knew about these in 1938, but burdick didn't catch up until 1941 publication.


1953 CCB: Asks if t206 might be complete at 523 subjects - also states that no new subjects have been added in the last 14 years....must be referring to myers' list of 523 from 1938.

???? - sweeney with no "B" added as subject 524

1978 - Bill Heitman in "The Monster" - advocates demoting from 524 subjects to 523 because Sweeney "No B" is just a printer variation

1981 - Larry Fritsch discovers Doyle NY Natl variation but keeps it to himself.

1987 - Doyle Ny Natl is accepted as the new official 524th member of the t206 set.