T: An insignificant question

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Posted By: Frank Wakefield

Well now, Leon... I conceed that Mr. Burdick grouped other stuff in with N.

Burdick's "special index" on page 4...

"N C & S Amer. Tobacco 73"

And there, on page 73, it has N1 as Argentine Cowboys.


Back on page 43, "1 American Editors (50) 1st series, numbered"


So I see what you mean, Leon, some of the cards that we think of today as N cards were just numbered in 1960.



On page 11 Burdick has a section headed Listing Style. In it he actually mentions that the initial letter in the listing identifies card type, "except Section 5 (19th Tobacco inserts) which is without a letter." sic.


My catalog is a 1960 one. I had another but traded it for some E cards several years ago, I can't recall what year it was.

I still think somewhere along the line that N crept in front of the 19th century tobacco cards.