Posted By:
bruce Dorskind
We first met John Stirling at the Cincinnati show back in 1976.
He had a strong interest in old cards and had a number of issues
with the recently published (1975) first edition of The Sports
Collectors Bible.
In that Bible Old Judges in excellent condition were $2-10 and Mayos
were 8-10 and Kimballs $5-10.
We acquired a number of rare cards from John and provided him
with some input for his price guide.
The guide was not well distributed and is reasonably rare today.
As it was privately published, it quickly vanished. We never found
it in Brentanos or Double Day where one could easily find all
the Sports Collectors Bibles one wanted.
Of course, Wharton Tigar's Legendary six part World Tobacco Index
was published long before Stirling and/or Bert Sugar's Sports Collectors
Bible...
All three guides (the World Tobacco Index has five volumes) are priceless
documents which begin to tell today's collector about the early days
of a wonderful hobby.
Bruce Dorskind
America's Toughest Want List
(212) 734-7362