FOUND: Handbook To US Early Candy and Gum Cards - Egan, 1969

[gnaz01]

OK, so as many folks know, I have been searching for an ORIGINAL copy of Egan's Handbook for quite a few years with NO luck!! A board member here, Ray Novak, was kind enough to send me a photocopied one that he no longer had any use for, and I was VERY grateful.

So here we go.................

I bid on and won an auction on eBay a couple of weeks ago of some hobby publications and "checklists". Pictured in the auction was a 1960 ACC, Horne's Zeenuts book (I don't collect Zeenuts nor know much about them), The Trader Speaks, among other things. So when I opened the box, I found the ACC, the Zeenuts book, the TS books, etc. So all of a sudden, as I perused the rest of the box, I FOUND NOT 1 BUT 2 ORIGINAL COPIES OF EGAN'S HANDBOOK!! Oh, imagine my happiness!!! Also inside was an ORIGINAL 1950 "The American Book of Checklists" By Charles Bray WITH a corrections sheet, (2) Checking The Checklists by Ray Medeiros (Don't know a lot about this one), and an ORIGINAL August 1st, 1963 "The Card Collector's Bulletin" with original mailing envelope from Charles Bray!! I will tell you I felt like I was coming down with a cold that day, but after opening up my package, I felt ALL BETTER

Anyway, I just wanted to share with the board my findings, as to me, this is something I never thought I would find, let alone all the ancillary items that came with it.