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!!