Question about T206 history

[markf31]

Originally Posted by Runscott

Yep, and they also had to get the players to sign an agreement of some sort. Odd how much of the history simply disappeared.

Originally Posted by I Only Smoke 4 the Cards

It's not lost, just yet to be found.

Let's not forget, it was still almost 50 years after the printing of T206s that Sy Berger supposedly dumped thousands of unsold 1952 Topps cards into the Hudson river because he couldn’t think of anything better to do with them. So even a company, who’s business was baseball cards, saw them as disposal and and almost worthless property 50 years later. I can’t imagine ALC or American Tobacco Company saw much value in retaining anything pertaining to cards.

[T206Collector]

I've often seen it written here that tons of recycled paper and metal were used in the war efforts of WWI and WWII. Nobody would have thought to preserve the card machines or paper related thereto during these time periods.

[Bocabirdman]

Originally Posted by Bocabirdman

I wonder. Let us not forget that most homes and businesses were heated with stoves and furnaces at that time. I fear that most of the paperwork may have taking the nip ot of a winter's morn.

Originally Posted by T206Collector

I've often seen it written here that tons of recycled paper and metal were used in the war efforts of WWI and WWII. Nobody would have thought to preserve the card machines or paper related thereto during these time periods.

If you start adding up all of the possible reasons for stuff to not have survived, the fact that as much Early Twentieth Century tobacco-related stuff exists today is remarkable