Card Collectors Bulletin #2, Feb. 1, 1937
 

Check out the values......and remember this is 2 yrs prior to the 1st iteration of the American Card Catalog....



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Thanks for sharing Leon :)

Interesting that Obaks are included with the 521 Baseball Series.


Best Regards,
Craig

T-3's are a dime, triplefolders are three cents, T207 are two cents.....maybe I'll give them a call, see what's left.

Whoa, T208's are two cents each....they better not have any creases!

I'll take the creased ones if you don't want them Barry....:D

I think it is amazing coincidence that T206 is No. 521, and a complete set minus the big 3 would also be 521.

As low as those prices were, this was during the depression and sellers probably had few takers.

1912 was to 1937 what 1987 is to us today plus inflation plus 100X collectors
 

I think Jay has placed things in the right context: this was the Great Depression (or at least the greatest we have observed so far) and sellers - even at these comparatively low values - had fewer buyers.

Furthermore, the time frame involved for some of our favorites (T205, T206, T3, T202, etc.) is roughly a quarter century prior to the entry of CCB into the marketplace. Take 25 years off 2012 and what do you have? Cards from 1987 are readily available for pennies: (inflated pennies at that compared with the 1937 cents when a nickel bought a LARGE candy bar - or so I'm told by my mother and mother-in-law who were youths in 1937.)

Finally, the number of collectors today is easily hundreds of times the few who seriously collected mostly T, N, E and the few R cards available in the late 1930s.

Finally (yes, really, finally) when I was involved as editor of Sports Scoop magazine in 1973-74, we published a poll of subscribers' estimates of the values of popularly collected cards. The general criticism of that poll was summarized by one letter I recall: that people sent in the prices they would like to pay, not the real market values at the time. I think that view may be held, at least to some degree, with regard to CCB's values 75 years ago.

Leon... Thank you VERY MUCH for making these available!
 

In my haste to post an earlier reply, I neglected to thank Leon for making these scans of early Card Collector's Bulletins available. As a CCB subscriber myself in the mid 1960's until about the time of its demise (1973?), it was a privilege to rub shoulders long-distance (via the mails) with some of our hobby's founders who were still active at that time: Charles "Buck" Barker, CCB's second editor-publisher Charles Bray and Lionel Carter.

Leon, in particular, as well as a number of other collectors at Net54baseball/Pre-War have kept our hobby history alive and well. Thank you!