What’s happening most recently with rebuilding the Howe McCormick collection
 

Sorry for the extremely long post (delete if you want, Leon), but I’ve been thinking I should post again about progress on my revised project.

Originally trying to get every card that Howe McCormick had owned came crashing to an end with the Goldin auction last fall of almost 1,000 that had been purchased all at once around 1972. My focus changed to trying to collect a complete set of T206s that had been owned and stamped by Howe. After getting as many as I could from Scott (the winner of the Goldin auction) and selling my dupes, I find myself 139 cards short of a complete set (there would be no St. Louis Demmitt or O’Hara as the McCormick-Howe Mercantile didn’t sell Polar Bear).

Cards marked with a * are cards that Scott had in that huge lot but I was unable to get at the time. Cards with a + are cards I knew of before that are in personal collections that I probably will never get.

Cards with no mark by them are ones that haven’t been seen with Howe’s rubber stamp on the back and I would consider new, meaning they haven’t been seen in the 20 years since I started this quest.

As always, if you have any of these and might be interested in selling (I have nothing left to trade), please let me know. If you have one without any mark, even if you’re not interested in selling at this time, please let me know so I can mark it as a card that does exist.

Thanks


Doc Adkins*
Whitey Alperman*
Red Ames (Hands above Head)
Jack Bastian*
Jake Beckley
George Bell (Hands above Head)
George Bell (Pitching Follow Through)
Chief Bender (Pitching, No Trees in Background)
Bill Bergen (Catching)*
Bill Bradley (with bat)
Al Bridwell (Portrait, With Cap)
George Browne (Washington)
Mordecai Brown (Chicago on Shirt)
Bill Burns
Charley Carr*
Peter Cassidy*
Frank Chance (Portrait, Yellow Background)*
Hal Chase (Holding Trophy)
Hal Chase (Portrait, Blue Background)
Bill Clancey
Ty Cobb (Portrait, Green Background) +
Ty Cobb (Portrait, Red Background) +
Ty Cobb (Bat off Shoulder) +
Ty Cobb (Bat on Shoulder) +
Wid Conroy (With Bat)
Sam Crawford (Throwing)
Sam Crawford (With Bat)
Dode Criss*
Bill Dahlen (Brooklyn)
Harry Davis (Davis on Front)
Ray Demmitt (New York)*
Josh Devore +
Mike Donlin (Fielding)*
Mike Donlin (With Bat)
Wild Bill Donovan (throwing)
Mickey Doolan (Batting)
Patsy Dougherty (Arm in Air)
Tom Downey (Batting)
Joe Doyle (N.Y. Nat'l,Hands Above Head)
Joe Doyle (Hands above Head)
Larry Doyle (With Bat)
Hugh Duffy
Kid Elberfeld (Washington, Portrait)
Roy Ellam*
Lou Fiene (Portrait)
Russ Ford
Dolly Gray*
Clark Griffith (Batting)
Bob Hall*
Bill Hallman*
Buck Herzog (Boston)
Dick Hoblitzell
Danny Hoffman
Solly Hoffman*
Harry Howell (Hand at Waist)
John Hummel
Jimmy Jackson*
Walter Johnson (Portrait)
Red Kleinow (Boston)
Red Kleinow (New York, Catching)
Otto Krueger*
Nap Lajoie (With Bat)
Joe Lake (St. Louis, Ball in Hand)
Arlie Latham
Tommy Leach (Bending Over)
Lefty Leifield (Batting)
Lefty Leifield (Pitching)*
Harry Lord
Sherry Magee (Magie)
Sherry Magee (With Bat)
Rube Manning (Pitching)
Rube Marquard (Pitching Follow-Through)
Christy Mathewson (Dark Cap)
Christy Mathewson (Portrait)
Al Mattern*
Moose McCormick
Iron Man McGinnity
John McGraw (Glove at Hip)
John McGraw (Portrait, With Cap)
Matty McIntyre
Murphy (Batting)*
Tom Needham
Rube Oldring (Batting)
Orval Overall (Hand Face Level)
Jim Pastorius
Billy Payne
Francis (Big Jeff) Pfeffer*
Jake Pfiester (Throwing)
Eddie Plank
Phil Poland*
Jack Powell
Ambrose Puttmann*
Bugs Raymond*
Ed Reagan +
Ed Reulbach (Glove Showing)
Ed Reulbach (No Glove Showing)
Bob Rhodes (Right Arm Extended)
Nap Rucker (Throwing)*
Larry Schlafly
Admiral Schlei (Batting)*
Wildfire Schulte (Back View)
Cy Seymour (Throwing)
Shag Shaughnessy
Frank Smith (Chicago, White Cap)
Frank Smith (Chicago & Boston)
Happy Smith
Fred Snodgrass (Catching)*
Jake Stahl (Glove Shows)
Harry Steinfeldt (With Bat)
George Stone*
Sam Strang*
Gabby Street (Catching)
Gabby Street (Portrait)
Jeff Sweeney
Jesse Tannehill
Lee Tannehill (Tannehill on Front)
Joe Tinker (Bat off Shoulder)
Joe Tinker (Bat on Shoulder)
Joe Tinker (Hands on Knees)*
Terry Turner*
Rube Waddell (Portrait)
Rube Waddell (Throwing)
Honus Wagner +
Zack Wheat
Doc White (Pitching)
Kaiser Wilhelm (Hands at Chest)*
Vic Willis (Throwing)*
Hooks Wiltse (Pitching)

You have taken collecting "The Monster" to a whole new level. I have always admired your hunt. I am sorry that apparently he had more than you can feasibly get.

My FF Baker collection pales in your presence.

Great progress Ed, I'll keep my eyes peeled for you and good luck!