Black Swamp Find? Tell me more!

[Leon]

40 million fish cards!!

Originally Posted by G1911

Yes. We do. A book kept by Frank Fullgraff, a project manager running at least a portion of the ATC card projects and working directly for the Brett Lithographing firm and possible the ALC and ATC as well, contains printing counts for a number of 1910 card sets. It is possible that these are not complete and even more millions were printed at other lithographing locations (it seems likely for some of these sets, comparing the figures). This one location, Brett Lithography, produced hundreds of millions of cards in 1910 alone and doesn't account for even half of the 1910 T sets.

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[G1911]

Originally Posted by Leon

40 million fish cards!!

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And that’s only the first series!

[Stampsfan]

Originally Posted by Leon

40 million fish cards!!
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Yup, sounds like a fish story.

[phlflyer1]

Imagine being the sap who had the highest graded E98 set (in-tact from its original collector) and could have sold it for a nice penny before the Black Swamp find was made and flooded the market...

[Leon]

Those have always been awesome to look at, Scott. Thanks for posting them.
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[Casey2296]

Still the nicest E98 set imo Scott.

[robertsmithnocure]

That is such an amazing set.

[T206Collector]

I had a near set of e98 BSF, including the Tinker and Jennings 1-of-1s. But, I started selling shortly after seeing what I believe were new ones leaking into the market in 2019 via PWCC. I started a thread about it at the time:

https://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=267827

[chaddurbin]

Originally Posted by phlflyer1

Imagine being the sap who had the highest graded E98 set (in-tact from its original collector) and could have sold it for a nice penny before the Black Swamp find was made and flooded the market...

you're doing fine scott, nice set!

BSF is great for the hobby. high grade caramels (or prewars in general) were always exclusive to the deeper pockets or those lucky enough to get a "find". now you can pick up a NRMT hof example for $600-$700, and possibly a cobb/wagner for 4 figures...count me in!

[molenick]

I think the BSF cards were all (or mostly) red so at least Scott's amazing set has something that distinguishes it (and hopefully means it hasn't lost too much of its value).

[calvindog]

Originally Posted by phlflyer1

Imagine being the sap who had the highest graded E98 set (in-tact from its original collector) and could have sold it for a nice penny before the Black Swamp find was made and flooded the market...

This is still one if the greatest images to ever show up on Net 54.

[Bryzz02016]

Originally Posted by calvindog

This is still one if the greatest images to ever show up on Net 54.

I was actually just admiring that photo. What a beautiful set !

[ullmandds]

Originally Posted by Bryzz02016

I was actually just admiring that photo. What a beautiful set !

atleast yours are green...and gorgeous!!!!!

[sacentaur]

The BSF is still mind-boggling, and I definitely would like to own a few representative examples yet am unsure exactly how their pricing has held up today.

I understand that upon flooding the E98 market these cards changed the collecting landscape (for better and worse), but not sure I want to dip my toe into them.

They are so beautiful…

[phlflyer1]

Originally Posted by calvindog

This is still one if the greatest images to ever show up on Net 54.

Thanks Jeff,

Much appreciated. I still have the set as part of my collection and still get a lot of enjoyment from owning it so I can't complain too much about the lost opportunity to have sold them before the Black Swamp find.