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Originally Posted by FrankWakefield
The latter gentleman, and at least two other collectors, politely suggested to me that it wouldn't yield reliable results. Separately, they all said the same thing... that some premiums would be advertised before they were available, and some were available before appearing in an ad. Worse, at least one guy thought that a few premiums were advertised yet never were available.
As for the years listed in the Vintage Catalog, I was a bit doubtful about a few of those year determinations, but Mr. Lemke seemed confident of them but seemed that he'd consider evidence to the contrary.
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I don't disagree with the mentioned collectors, but I would posit that the first mention of a specific poster in the magazine would be a more logical and "more reliable" date of availability than any other.
As for Mr. Lemke he once wrote "In the cases of the Baseball Magazine posters and Sporting Life cabinets, the checklists were generated from advertising within the pages of those periodicals" and "The Baseball Magazine posters list in the Standard Catalog has been published unchanged for most, if not all, 20 editions of the book. Now, it appears, changes are in order."
http://boblemke.blogspot.com/2010/08...zine-team.html
My plan is to do some much need housekeeping to the m113 (and possibly the m114) catalog. Because there are certainly some changes that are in order, starting with the 18 posters advertised, 16 which I know for a fact exist, with only 11 noted in the catalog for 1910 thru 1912.
We will of course never know if a poster was actually issued, until an example is found, but that's another thing I'm working on.
Doug
03-01-2021, 11:12 PM
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