Our Hobby's First Dealer..?
 

I stole this from another website. Pretty cool article from 1895.

And then one day he held an auction, and got some of his friends to place phony bids...

That is awesome. I picture him peddling N172's and Mayo's. Great article.

Peter you are too funny.

-Nick

Thats about 30 years before Goodie Goldfaden started...He probably bought out the entrepreneur..

Wow!....
 

if he was around in 1909 peddlin' t206 wagz ........:eek:........

Is that Ted Z?

AAAAAAHHHHHHHHH....

yeah.

Tom C

Jeff.......
 

JUST CRAPPED MY PANTS!:eek: that was funny!:):eek:

That was a neat article. Thanks for sharing!

Here's a few postcards, though after 1895
2 are blank, and the others are postmarked 1911 & 1913
Maybe young Willie was the inspiration of the postcard series

http://www.qualitycards.com/pictures/cigcardpc.jpg

http://www.qualitycards.com/pictures/cigcardpcb.jpg

http://www.qualitycards.com/pictures/cigcardpcc.jpg

http://www.qualitycards.com/pictures/cigcardpcd.jpg

Great post, great article and cool post cards. 25 cents/hundred... could you imagine if all of those were only baseball players... there'd have to be a couple of Brownings in that pile...

Fun article, thanks for sharing that.

Neat article, one I hadn't seen before.

I've posted this link before but feel it is fitting for this thread. It is an excerpt from Dave Jamieson's Mint Condition regarding collecting Old Judge and other 19th century cards. Interesting from start to finish.

http://www.sportscollectorsdaily.com...-distribution/

Kevin, Jay & Joe

Interesting articles and postcards!

Thanks for posting.


Jantz

Great post! Thanks.

That's a cool article. Thanks for sharing.

Pretty cool article.

Picked up this 1912 post card today.


http://i947.photobucket.com/albums/a...pse1ofvxha.png

-Nick

awesome article and postcards, thanks for sharing guys!

I thought Catman was first...(who is actually a nice guy, imo)...btw, great original article and thanks for posting it!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrLxi8gy67o



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I know I'll be looking for Willie Dreyfus stamps on the backs of OJs. Would be really cool to find one.

Very cool. :)

Very cool article thanks for sharing

Great article links - thanks for the shares!

Very neat, thanks for sharing. Cool postcards as well.