Card Collector's Bulletin, 2/1/55 -- Old Judge article, auction

[bcornell]

Thanks for taking the time to post these. There are some famous names seen in the ads like those of Wirt Gammon and E.C. Wharton-Tigar, who we can now apparently refer to as "Ed", since that's what they called him here. I think it's noteworthy that Burdick's ACC classifications were the norm not too many years after their 1939 debut.

The ads are really not all that different from the ones you'd see thirty years later in The Trader Speaks and other publications. There was so little info and so few hobbyists that a lot of incorrect assumptions were made about scarcity, size of sets, etc.

Great stuff to read here.

Bill