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

[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

[h2oya311]

Thanks for posting Leon! I got a kick out of the letter using the phrase "here's the dope on...."

[Leon]

Since Mr. Burdick took a loss on the above mentioned Card Collectors Bulletin project eleven of his friends took up a collection......Dec 1940......

[buymycards]

Interesting reading. I can't imagine the amount of work that went into this catalog.

One thing is curious. On the first letter he used the number 1. On the other letters he substituted the letter I for the 1. I wonder if his typewriter was broken?

[Leon]

Originally Posted by buymycards

Interesting reading. I can't imagine the amount of work that went into this catalog.

One thing is curious. On the first letter he used the number 1. On the other letters he substituted the letter I for the 1. I wonder if his typewriter was broken?

He was industrious so I wouldn't put it past him to improvise a 1 with a capital I. Many of his letters posted are written on backs of Card Collectors Bulletins pages.