VCBC articles on Obaks??

[Kawika]

So many ways to approach T212s. Some guys collect all the years. There are probably even manly men who have gone for broke and put together master sets. Myself I concentrated on the 1910 and '11 Vancouver and Victoria players because I live in BC. Link Also put together a 1909 subset of the ten horizontal cards. A T4 makes for a nice companion piece. Plus I'll pick up the odd one just because I like how it looks. Obaks are great. Have fun!

[Leon]

Nice cards David. Only a 5.5 on yourself? Must be a wrinkle or crease somewhere!!

Originally Posted by Kawika

So many ways to approach T212s. Some guys collect all the years. There are probably even manly men who have gone for broke and put together master sets. Myself I concentrated on the 1910 and '11 Vancouver and Victoria players because I live in BC. Link Also put together a 1909 subset of the ten horizontal cards. A T4 makes for a nice companion piece. Plus I'll pick up the odd one just because I like how it looks. Obaks are great. Have fun!

[Kawika]

Originally Posted by Leon

Must be a wrinkle or crease somewhere!!

Got plenty I'm afraid. Been around a long time. Been folded, spindled, mutilated and run through the bicycle spokes for good measure. Every day above ground is a good day.

[conor912]

Haha. Love the custom card, David. Hoping to see you at the WSCCA show in June.

[Kawika]

Originally Posted by conor912

Hoping to see you at the WSCCA show in June.

Conor: It's a great little card show, like going to a ball game with the wood stands and chicken wire backstop. None of that super-amped National extravaganza crap. Unfortunately have a conflict and need to take a miss this summer.
Robert the OP: If you live on or ever get near the west coast there are several PCL-centric card shows in the Bay Area and the WSCCA shows in Seattle. Lots of great cards and any number of walking Obak/Zeenuts encyclopedias. You'd dig it.

[trdcrdkid]

I've scanned most of the Obak articles listed on the Old Cardboard site, as shown by Kawika in post 5 of this thread. The exceptions are the two OC eNews articles, which are about the T4 Obak premiums (very tough to find) and are online already; the 2005 Old Cardboard item, which is just a bio of Mark Obermeyer that mentions that he has a complete set of T212s; and the last article by Obermeyer in the March 2001 VCBC, because it turns out I don't have that issue of VCBC. I'll included the first three articles in this comment, and the last three in the next comment below. So, in chronological order:

Here is Lloyd Toerpe's article from the May 1973 Sports Scoop:



Lew Lipset's item from the April 1987 The Old Judge, about a T212 album that had been discovered:



And Mark Macrae's article from the September 1995 Vintage & Classic Baseball Collector (#4):

[trdcrdkid]

Here is Jeff Obermeyer's article from the September/October VCBC (#12) about the players in T212:








Obermeyer's article from the February 2000 VCBC (#22) about the back slogans on the 1910 Obaks:




And Obermeyer's update on the 1910 backs from the January 2001 VCBC (#24):