Sen. Russell's collection incl. Doyle error & Ty Cobb back

[tedzan]

Originally Posted by Jaybird

Interesting thread.

I guess I'd like to know the detail about how you concluded that the collection was archived until 1983. How do we know he didn't revisit these cards during his lifetime?

I realize that they all (except the Cobb) had Pied350 backs but another explanation might have been that he only liked to collect Piedmont 350.

Jason

It wasn't a matter that...."he only liked to collect Piedmont 350" cards. The timeline (1910-11) of when he started smoking as a teenager the available brand in his area
of Georgia was Piedmont cigarettes. He pulled 1000's of cards from the Piedmont and Old Mill (red border) packs that he purchased.

His distant relative was selling off his 100's of duplicates back in 2008 and I bought about 40 of them.

The collection of his on display at the U of GA consists of 497 different T206's.....another 500+ cards including T205's and T210's.

Perhaps my choice of the word "archived" is misleading. Russell was sent away to a strict Military school in 1911. From 1911 to 1919 he went to Law School and was in
the Navy (and was into girls). During this period his smoking habit had ceased. My impression of this period in his life was too regimented for him to have spent any time
collecting BB cards. After all, there were no BB card shows .

His collection from the 1910-11 era was back in his folks home in Winder, GA collecting dust.

TED Z