Card Collector's Bulletin #40: February 1, 1946
 

Here is issue #40 of Card Collector's Bulletin, dated February 1, 1946, with a cover story by Jefferson Burdick about the soon-to-be-published 1946 edition of the American Card Catalog, which introduced the classification system we known today (T205, T206, etc.). There are ads by several well-known collectors (Lionel Carter, Jake Wise, Wirt Gammon, John Wagner), using the old classification system, in which the set we know as T206 was #521. Note that Gammon was offering $2 each for what we know as T208s, T215s, T4s (Obak premiums), and H801-7s (Old Mill premiums). I wonder if he got any? It's also fun to look at the auction, which included 1132 damaged T206s with an estimated price of $45.28, 200 Obaks with an estimated price of $12.06, etc.

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I also have CCB #44 from October 1, 1946, with Burdick's additions and corrections to the 1946 Catalog, and more great ads, including Lionel Carter's full-page list of duplicates he was willing to trade. But I'm not going to scan and post that, because Leon already did so five years ago, in this thread:

http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=138628

I never knew there were only 1000 copies of the 1946 ACC printed. They seem relatively easy to obtain today...Thanks for sharing, David. That is a great read..