Surviving Copies of the 1939 United States Card Collectors Catalog

[Leon]

Originally Posted by AbeCurry

Younger generation here checking in. Going into to 2022 I've decided to change the way I go about collecting. I hate what the "new" collectors are doing. It's ruining this great hobby. Due to that, I've decided to focus on the "middle" period between WWI and WW2, starting with the 1933 Goudey set. I'm well on my way there and was also able to find an original 1939 ACC that I picked up.

It doesn't seem to be part of the group so I wanted to have it added.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HjW...ew?usp=sharing

Agree, nice first post and welcome to the forum....I have 2 copies of the 1939 edition....plus a uniquely known letter announcing it.

Here is a thread concerning Burdick.

https://www.net54baseball.com/showth...Burdick+letter

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[AbeCurry]

Hi Leon,

Wow, such an incredible letter. Have you made it through the thousands of letters and other ephemera from the Wagner lot? Looks like you have some really great content to write a book

[Hankphenom]

Such an interesting topic. I'll have to go back and search for other early hobby pubs threads.

[Carter08]

The Burdick letter is great. My favorite line: Give me all the dope and ideas you can think of.

[GasHouseGang]

I downloaded the entire catalog page by page from someone's website (or maybe it was posted on Net54). It is 112 individual pages. I don't remember who posted it, but it looks like the Dan Calandriello copy.

[teza11]

Nice add Abe. Your copy has been added.

Jeff

[FrankWakefield]

As stated above, Mr. Burdick would most likely be displeased with the current state of the hobby.

And as to his mention of soaking; people would have started soaking T206s soon after the cards came out. A collector gathers cards, pastes them into an album, then it isn't long until additional cards have been gathered which could lead to reorganizing the order on the pages. How many of us have moved cards a few spaces over in 9 or 15 pocket sheets? I truly believe that there are very few T206s that are in decent shape or better that didn't get soaked at some point. And I see nothing wrong with that.

Founding fathers... Burdick, Nagle, Wagner (the collector).

A wonderful letter, and thread. Kinda makes me wish I'd not gotten a hardbound, newer ACC; and had instead gotten that 1939 edition. Thanks for posting.

[darb44]

Thanks for this post I used it to help authenticate a copy I was looking at that I believe to be legit. It just showed up in the mail and looks very clean. If I wanted to authenticate and possibly slab it similar to how comic books are slabbed, who would you all recommend? I believe CSG is the leader in comics but have no idea if they’d be able to deal in this. Thoughts?