"Announcing the United States Card Collectors Catalog"- JR Burdick Mar. 1, 1936

[egbeachley]

Originally Posted by 4815162342

Indiana Jones would say "It belongs in a museum!" Leon, thanks for posting this in the Net54 museum for all of us to enjoy.

My favorite passage:

The I80 Kinney set he is referring to is now know as the N224 Kinney Military set. He knew of 603 with 15 to 20 possible......good guess since it's now known to be 622 cards. I have been collecting it actively for 12 years and have been stuck at 612 cards for the last 5-6 years with only 1 of the 10 I am missing coming up for sale in that time. No wonder nobody has ever completed it, although the British museum is short just one and a member of this Board (he who has the near-set of T215 Pirate cards) is short just 3 of them.

[BradH]

In the third graph of the Wagner letter he makes reference to a variation for W. J. Kramer's card in the T218 Champion Athletes and Prizefighters set (which he refers to as #572).

I've been collecting T218s for over a decade and have never heard of the red shirt/#100 variation for Kramer. Has anyone else who collects T218s ever seen an example? I'm guessing he never confirmed it.

[buchner]

Probably talking about the T227 card of Kramer

[Joe_G.]

An absolute hobby treasure! Congrats Leon on accumulating some of the most important pieces of early hobby history. Interesting parallels to today, so much, yet so little, has changed.

[1880nonsports]

in fact - better than that!

[Leon]

Originally Posted by 1880nonsports

in fact - better than that!

Thanks Henry et al........and to further elaborate, if I am not mistaking? in the first paragraph of the letter, it looks like Wagner sent the #521 dupe of Honus (Pontifical Standard) to Burdick for free. If we remember that article David just posted it mentions it. And it mentions how, after returning the $25 three times Burdick finally took the money.

[Rich Klein]

Note also the discovery of the T206 Plank