Before there were price guides....

[Leon]

This thread will be for any any of our newer members who haven't seen this early collecting ephemera shown before. An interesting niche in collecting vintage baseball cards is collecting and studying where the organized collecting hobby began. We know Jefferson Burdick cataloged collectible cards and forever changed the hobby, in the most positive way imaginable. There have been a few recent sales of Card Collectors Bulletins which he produced in the early years (late 1930s etc...), to help catalog our cards even before there was a "Catalog". Once he put his first catalog out in 1939, The US Card Collectors Catalog, he added to it through the Card Collector Bulletin updates and eventually a few more editions of the American Card Catalog (ACC) itself. The recent sales of the Bulletins haven't included the very first ones ever put out, which started in 1937. Thanks again to George Vrechek for the photocopies...If anyone ever finds an original one for sale I know someone who might be interested!!

[barrysloate]

I agree that with cards priced at 50 cents to a dollar each, there is absolutely no future for the hobby.

[Leon]

Originally Posted by barrysloate

I agree that with cards priced at 50 cents to a dollar each, there is absolutely no future for the hobby.

A nice and concise price guide all in one sentence-

"small baseball player cards issued since 1900 may be priced at 1 cent." -Burdick




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[gnaz01]

Originally Posted by leon

if anyone ever finds an original one for sale i know someone who might be interested!!

yup!!

[Iron Horse]

oh, don't we all wish...

[ullmandds]

I have a stack of lighthouse cards I will gladly trade for a larger stack of baseball cards!

[oldjudge]

This is what happens when a buyer writes a catalog. LOL

[trdcrdkid]

I love this stuff. I have several boxes of old hobby publications that I bought 20+ years ago from Dan Even, including Card Collectors' Bulletin, but I think the earliest I have are from the early 1950s. Most are from the 60s, 70s, and 80s, but they include some things that George Vrechek doesn't have.