Zeenut Stories

[mattsey9]

Finally, a group of old timers congregate at a bar to go through an old stack of Zeenuts.

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[brianp-beme]

Thanks Mattsey...I have never seen those before, and from those columns it certainly feels like Zeenut cards were the West Coast version of what was seen during the T206 craze. A couple of the articles give a real good look at the dynamics of rare/star cards value and how highly prized they were on the kid street market.

Brian

[spec]

Thanks for sharing!!!

[oaks1912]

Thanks Mike,
Great anecdotes, and much easier to track down these days with 'word search' than the old fashioned way...

[egbeachley]

So, from the second article, is Spider Baum a scarce card worth 50-100 commons in a trade?

[mattsey9]

Originally Posted by egbeachley

So, from the second article, is Spider Baum a scarce card worth 50-100 commons in a trade?

I wondered the same. I found another snippet where someone claimed to have traded 3 Baums for 1 Lefty O'Doul. I'd be curious to hear the relative scarcity myself.

[qed2190]

Any idea what the year was of the Baum card?

[oaks1912]

Originally Posted by mattsey9

I wondered the same. I found another snippet where someone claimed to have traded 3 Baums for 1 Lefty O'Doul. I'd be curious to hear the relative scarcity myself.

None of the Baum cards are particularly scarce today. He was clearly high demand in the day, but likely a distribution issue for particular series' of cards. Some series of cards were only distributed in certain areas.

[danf19]

As a new collector of zeenuts, I really appreciate and enjoyed the stories.
thanks
Dan

[rhettyeakley]

Originally Posted by oaks1912

None of the Baum cards are particularly scarce today. He was clearly high demand in the day, but likely a distribution issue for particular series' of cards. Some series of cards were only distributed in certain areas.

As Mark said, the Collins-McCarthy company apparently distributed strangely so what may have been a "RAREY" in one part of town was not that in another part of town or city. For example I found a vintage collection of 1920's Zeenut cards several years ago and within the group I had only a few duplicate 1925's but of the 10-20 dupes in my group were several copies of Phillips and McCann, which in 1925 are VERY tough to find and I think even Mark needed them. Thus, the rest of California those cards were RAREY cards as described in the article but for whatever reason the area where the collection I had purchased were found they were apparently very common 1925's. Just funny distribution, there are other stories like that where a once rare card is found in quantity all of the sudden.

[mattsey9]

Originally Posted by oaks1912

Thanks Mike,
Great anecdotes, and much easier to track down these days with 'word search' than the old fashioned way...

You're not kidding, Mark! Research has gotten a lot easier over the last decade.