Card Collectors Bulletin #2, Feb. 1, 1937

[Leon]

Check out the values......and remember this is 2 yrs prior to the 1st iteration of the American Card Catalog....








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[White Borders]

Thanks for sharing Leon

Interesting that Obaks are included with the 521 Baseball Series.


Best Regards,
Craig

[barrysloate]

T-3's are a dime, triplefolders are three cents, T207 are two cents.....maybe I'll give them a call, see what's left.

Whoa, T208's are two cents each....they better not have any creases!

[toppcat]

Originally Posted by barrysloate

T-3's are a dime, triplefolders are three cents, T207 are two cents.....maybe I'll give them a call, see what's left.

Whoa, T208's are two cents each....they better not have any creases!

I'll take the creased ones if you don't want them Barry....

[T206Collector]

I think it is amazing coincidence that T206 is No. 521, and a complete set minus the big 3 would also be 521.

[Jay Wolt]

As low as those prices were, this was during the depression and sellers probably had few takers.

[SteveMitchell]

Originally Posted by Jay Wolt

As low as those prices were, this was during the depression and sellers probably had few takers.

I think Jay has placed things in the right context: this was the Great Depression (or at least the greatest we have observed so far) and sellers - even at these comparatively low values - had fewer buyers.

Furthermore, the time frame involved for some of our favorites (T205, T206, T3, T202, etc.) is roughly a quarter century prior to the entry of CCB into the marketplace. Take 25 years off 2012 and what do you have? Cards from 1987 are readily available for pennies: (inflated pennies at that compared with the 1937 cents when a nickel bought a LARGE candy bar - or so I'm told by my mother and mother-in-law who were youths in 1937.)

Finally, the number of collectors today is easily hundreds of times the few who seriously collected mostly T, N, E and the few R cards available in the late 1930s.

Finally (yes, really, finally) when I was involved as editor of Sports Scoop magazine in 1973-74, we published a poll of subscribers' estimates of the values of popularly collected cards. The general criticism of that poll was summarized by one letter I recall: that people sent in the prices they would like to pay, not the real market values at the time. I think that view may be held, at least to some degree, with regard to CCB's values 75 years ago.

[SteveMitchell]

In my haste to post an earlier reply, I neglected to thank Leon for making these scans of early Card Collector's Bulletins available. As a CCB subscriber myself in the mid 1960's until about the time of its demise (1973?), it was a privilege to rub shoulders long-distance (via the mails) with some of our hobby's founders who were still active at that time: Charles "Buck" Barker, CCB's second editor-publisher Charles Bray and Lionel Carter.

Leon, in particular, as well as a number of other collectors at Net54baseball/Pre-War have kept our hobby history alive and well. Thank you!