So where am I not looking?

atx840 · #1 07-06-2012, 09:39 PM

Sometimes Joe posts cards before they hit ebay. I tend to see them show up at the Sterling & Goodwin auctions, recently I think there were a few Hindus.

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caramelcard · #2 07-06-2012, 09:42 PM

If Howe McCormick had 208 T206 cards, he most surely had 209 right? Hope so. I'll take another look through my set.

Some of these are very faint which I'm sure makes it a bit tougher for you.

Best of luck!!

rob

wonkaticket · #3 07-06-2012, 09:45 PM

Same place we all should have been looking....the "Black Swamp".

Anthony S. · #4 07-06-2012, 09:58 PM

I had a Howe McCormick stamp made late last year. Ed's quest won't be ending anytime soon.

wonkaticket · #5 07-06-2012, 10:00 PM

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Originally Posted by anthony s.

i had a howe mccormick stamp made late last year. Ed's quest won't be ending anytime soon.

lmao! :d

Howe’s Hunter · #6 07-06-2012, 10:04 PM

If I knew how to make one of those little smiley face guys, or a thumbs up, that post would certainly deserve it.

rp12367 · #7 07-07-2012, 07:58 AM

Ed, 208 cards over the roughly 3 years t206 were produced, would mean whoever the smoker was giving him the cards, was a pack and a half a week smoker. Hardly any one I know smokes only that amount. There could still be hundreds more out there

Howe’s Hunter · #8 07-07-2012, 10:50 AM

Ralph, from my research on Ancestry.com (no, i'm not related to him), I found at the time the cards were out, he was 14. He lived in Alachua, Florida, which is now considered a suburb(?) of Gainesville, but is not it Gainesville proper (which explains why Main Street in Gainesville runs East/West, not North/South. It runs North/South in Alachua). Anyway, back to the theory... his father and his uncle (mom's brother) owned a market called McCormick and Howe (Howe was his mother's maiden name). There are no records of Howe ever attending a school in Alachua County. So my guess is as the only son of the small family, he worked at the store instead of attending school. Stuck at the store all day, he probably saw the cards coming out of cigarette packs that people were purchasing and got to a point were he was asking buyers to give him the cards if they didn't want them. All either Piedmont, Old Mill or Hindu. Over three years time, I'm guessing he got hundreds, if not a thousand. Over time, I would guess quite a few were lost, but my quest will probably go on forever just trying to round up the ones that have survived.

slidekellyslide · #9 07-07-2012, 11:20 AM

I really don't think your quest will end anytime soon...there have got to be thousands of people with T206 cards that have had them for decades and just don't think much about them, have never been to Net54 so don't know about your quest, et cetera. They will keep popping up steadily for you I'm sure. If you've amassed 208 in a few years time then this McCormick kid must have had a very large collection of them.

rp12367 · #10 07-07-2012, 11:49 AM

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Originally Posted by StuckInOmaha

Ralph, from my research on Ancestry.com (no, i'm not related to him), I found at the time the cards were out, he was 14. He lived in Alachua, Florida, which is now considered a suburb(?) of Gainesville, but is not it Gainesville proper (which explains why Main Street in Gainesville runs East/West, not North/South. It runs North/South in Alachua). Anyway, back to the theory... his father and his uncle (mom's brother) owned a market called McCormick and Howe (Howe was his mother's maiden name). There are no records of Howe ever attending a school in Alachua County. So my guess is as the only son of the small family, he worked at the store instead of attending school. Stuck at the store all day, he probably saw the cards coming out of cigarette packs that people were purchasing and got to a point were he was asking buyers to give him the cards if they didn't want them. All either Piedmont, Old Mill or Hindu. Over three years time, I'm guessing he got hundreds, if not a thousand. Over time, I would guess quite a few were lost, but my quest will probably go on forever just trying to round up the ones that have survived.

Ed, WOW I didn't know that his family owned a store, on that note, you are probaly correct there may be 100's or 1000's out there. You're quest will most likely be never ending. Best of Luck, I will keep my eyes open for you as well....

T206Collector · #11 07-07-2012, 02:02 PM

Ed,

I know you only collect the stamps on T206s. What other cards have you seen his stamp on?

Howe’s Hunter · #12 07-07-2012, 05:10 PM

Paul, right after the story in SGC magazine, I was contacted by a gentleman who went through SGC to get ahold of me. He had two T206s with the stamp (a Cy Young which has since changed hands, and a board member now owns) and an absolutley beautiful Cobb green background. Don't know where that one is now. But he also had five E96s he asked if I was interestd in. Those are the only other cards I know if to have Howe's stamp. Afraid when I do my searches, I limit them to t206s, so there may be others, I just haven't seen them.