Colgan Proofs/Squares

[millerhouse]

To all,

As has been alluded to in prior posts, the Standard Catalog checklist for these is woefully missing a number of cards, like the Lords mentioned in my prior post and one of the two Davises (Philadelphia and Cleveland).

What's amazing to me is that this set was first checklisted, much more completely, by Richard Egan in his seminal work on Candy and Gum cards, issued around 1969/1970. Why the SCD checklister over these many years has managed to ignore Egan's listing is a mystery. In any event, if an old-timer out there could pull out a copy of Egan's work, my guess is that maybe twenty-five or so of these squares would be added to the Standard Catalog list.

By the way, I'm also the guy, mentioned above, with about a dozen duplicates from this set, which includes dupes of Harry Coveleski, Ed Konetchy, Dode Paskert, Billy Purtell and George Stone, none of which appears in the Standard Catalog.

Millerhouse