"Announcing the United States Card Collectors Catalog"- JR Burdick Mar. 1, 1936

[Leon]

The most hotly contested item in the recent auction for John Wagner's hobby ephemera was this announcement for "The United States Card Collectors Catalog", or the American Card Catalog as we know it today. This announcement predates the catalog by 3 months. Included is a Burdick letter, written a week before he sent out the announcement. ...Enjoy....

[gnaz01]

Awesome, LL!!

[Jason]

Those are very nice and interesting letters Leon. I esp. like the part where the three T210's Beatty, Cabrol, and Stoehr were recently confirmed. Those are the kind of discoveries that made the known checklists we work off of today. So cool thanks for sharing.

[4815162342]

Indiana Jones would say "It belongs in a museum!" Leon, thanks for posting this in the Net54 museum for all of us to enjoy.

My favorite passage:

Could sell them to him at $2 a card but no soap. No more selling out of the collection. I tried it once and it was enough. I like to accommodate collectors but the reaction isn't worth the money involved. I'm not a dealer and not in this to make money but for the fun I get out of it. So why do something that tends to take the fun out of it?

[DaveW]

Very cool! Thanks for sharing it with us. I liked the part where he talks about paste on the card backs that should soak off easily - Burdick approved of card soaking!

[toppcat]

The prices for printing and at retail are amusing; what a smaller scale everything was on back then. Depression pricing all around I guess. Great read Leon.

[egbeachley]

Originally Posted by 4815162342

Indiana Jones would say "It belongs in a museum!" Leon, thanks for posting this in the Net54 museum for all of us to enjoy.

My favorite passage:

The I80 Kinney set he is referring to is now know as the N224 Kinney Military set. He knew of 603 with 15 to 20 possible......good guess since it's now known to be 622 cards. I have been collecting it actively for 12 years and have been stuck at 612 cards for the last 5-6 years with only 1 of the 10 I am missing coming up for sale in that time. No wonder nobody has ever completed it, although the British museum is short just one and a member of this Board (he who has the near-set of T215 Pirate cards) is short just 3 of them.

[BradH]

In the third graph of the Wagner letter he makes reference to a variation for W. J. Kramer's card in the T218 Champion Athletes and Prizefighters set (which he refers to as #572).

I've been collecting T218s for over a decade and have never heard of the red shirt/#100 variation for Kramer. Has anyone else who collects T218s ever seen an example? I'm guessing he never confirmed it.

[sporteq]

Very cool

[Thromdog]

Here's the dope on what he has in small cards:

They seriously freaking talked like that?