Burdick's deal with the Met
Maybe everybody knows this story by now.
The New York Times did a profile of the Burdick Collection May 5, 1012, "A Hobby to Many, Card Collecting Was Life's Work for One Man."
This article fills in all the blanks about Burdick and how he put the collection together for the Met.
By the way, there were 306,000 pieces and the Met agreed to accept it only if Burdick catalogued it himself.
In case anybody is wondering, he used water-based glue on backs of the cards.
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