Hobby history: The first T206 checklist, 1941

[trdcrdkid]

Just a quick followup to this post from last month. In the original post, I included part of a February 1, 1943 Card Collector's Bulletin article by Jefferson Burdick on tobacco card values, in which he gave values of $2 for T206 Plank and Wagner, and 15 cents for Southern Leaguers. I said that as far as I knew, this was the first time anybody had given values for those cards in print, but I was wrong. I had overlooked a small item in the August 1, 1941 CCB (see the bottom of the page shown below), in which Burdick announced that this issue would contain the last part of his checklist of the white-bordered baseball cards (then #521, now T206), and added that Plank and Wagner were going for 50 cents to $1, and Southern Leaguers were going for 5 to 10 cents. So it appears that those cards had risen significantly in value by 1943, in line with the general rise in card prices during World War II, as I've written about elsewhere.