The Collector Talks, March 1974 _The George Brace Story

[Leon]

Originally Posted by trdcrdkid

Yep, I have that issue too, Leon, along with several other issues of The Collector Talks. The article on Rich Egan in this issue (reprinted from the Chicago Tribune) is interesting too. I have a lot of material on Egan and started working on a hobby history post about him a while back, but other priorities have kept me from finishing it.

Always enjoy seeing the pubs. I am sure some more will be posted soon. I am taking my organizing of my periodicals slowly but surely, I think I only have around 6-8 large brown boxes of stuff left.

[Exhibitman]

And as long as we're talkin Burke and Brace, here's a Burke snapshot of Gabby Hartnett:

[rhettyeakley]

Here are the photos/card that are being advertised in the ad. Not sure if they ever got around to offering all of the images they were hoping to. I think I may have 40-50 different or so and the numbering is all over the place. I have never seen any attempt by anybody to catalog the seris but perhaps it has been done. They are on photo/Kodak paper and are 3.5" x 5". Actually really nice looking cards.

-Rhett

Series 1:

[Leon]

Going full circle, apparently it didn't work out for this magazine. This was postmarked sometime in 1980...

[Spike]

Bumping this thread to see if anyone's undertaken a Bra-Mac catalog effort in the last couple years or can share other ads for these card series sold from George Brace / Burke collection of personal and historical negatives. I have a couple dozen and would love to untangle what numbering systems apply in what order. (Attached a handful of examples from my latest lot purchase.)

[rhettyeakley]

I still have a bunch of these and do sell duplicates when I get them on ebay and in one of my listings there I have an image of some pages from "Sports Scoop" an early hobby publication (one of the better ones they ever made) that has the first 5 series of (8) cards listed. I have another ad somewhere that talks about the bonus cards being available by purchasing multiple series.

Here is the listing with the first 5 series checklists...
https://www.ebay.com/itm/1974-Bra-Ma...QAAOSwpZNccZFx

[Spike]

Originally Posted by rhettyeakley

I still have a bunch of these and do sell duplicates when I get them on ebay and in one of my listings there I have an image of some pages from "Sports Scoop" an early hobby publication (one of the better ones they ever made) that has the first 5 series of (8) cards listed. I have another ad somewhere that talks about the bonus cards being available by purchasing multiple series.

Here is the listing with the first 5 series checklists...
https://www.ebay.com/itm/1974-Bra-Ma...QAAOSwpZNccZFx

Thanks, you add real value to eBay by sharing that kind of info! Good to see someone goes the extra mile. :-)

Any chance you have higher-res scans of the Sports Scoop listings? At eBay size, can read just a few of the names from those five series.