Memories of collecting 1933 Goudey in Ballcard Collector, 1970

[brianp-beme]

Great, detailed info on collecting the Goudey set at ground zero. He had quite the memory of when each series was issued.

I assume the 'Goudey remainders' sold by Fawcett were the 24 card sheets? Sounds intriguing. Is that where all of our Goudey sheets come from?

Thanks again David!

Brian

[LuckyLarry]

Thanks for posting!
Larry

[Stonepony]

Fun reading about people who lived it

[trdcrdkid]

Originally Posted by brianp-beme

I assume the 'Goudey remainders' sold by Fawcett were the 24 card sheets? Sounds intriguing. Is that where all of our Goudey sheets come from?

"Fawcett" was John Fawcett, a professor of art at the University of Connecticut and a big collector of cards and other ephemera. In 1968 or 1969 he bought all the remaining Goudey material, including sheets, cards, samples, boxes, etc., from George Thompson, owner and longtime plant manager of the company, for $500. Fawcett was only interested in the Indian Gum material, and he sold the rest of it to interested people in the hobby, using the following flyer:

http://www1.coe.neu.edu/~dan/MF/the-sale.html



I assume that most if not all of the uncut Goudey sheets in the hobby come from this find. In the August 1, 1969 Card Collector's Bulletin, which I posted at the link below, Lionel Carter wrote about four uncut sheets of 1934 Goudeys that Donald J. McPherson had bought from Goodwin Goldfaden, but it's not clear whether Goldfaden got them from Fawcett or from someone else. The timing suggests that Goldfaden got them from Fawcett, but I'm not sure.

http://net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=218786

[brianp-beme]

Wow...thanks David. It sounds like this is where all the Library of Congress Goudey cards originated as well.

To me the late 60's to mid 70's was certainly the Golden era of vintage bb card collecting, where the hobby really got a burst of activity with new finds popping up all of the time.

Brian

[ls7plus]

Fascinating to hear about collecting the '33 Goudeys as they came out!

Thanks for posting,

Larry

[judsonhamlin]

realizing that the article was discussing 37 year old cards at the time makes it the equivalent of an article about 1979 Topps now. Somehow not the same...

[Bigdaddy]

Originally Posted by judsonhamlin

realizing that the article was discussing 37 year old cards at the time makes it the equivalent of an article about 1979 Topps now. Somehow not the same...

I was just thinking the same thing as I read the first page.

[lampertb]

This kind of stuff is why I am into pre-war cards, period.

Great post!

[insidethewrapper]

My dad will be age 94 this year and he remembers that no one could get one number ( #106), they opened pack after pack trying to find that number. This article indicates he wasn't the only one to be looking for #106. He never realized that it was issued the next year.

[kvnkvnkvn]

Damn, animals been searching packs for decades...