Collecting Cards as a Kid in 1889

[maniac_73]

Always enjoyed this article about Kids collecting T206

https://www.sportscollectorsdaily.co...ll-card-mania/

[Lucas00]

Originally Posted by Jay Wolt

In the same N85 Duke's set
there's another card on collecting
"Got any Duke's stamp cards?"

Originally Posted by maniac_73

Always enjoyed this article about Kids collecting T206



https://www.sportscollectorsdaily.co...ll-card-mania/

I’m Glad So many of you Enjoy the card. It struck a Chord with me as a collector when I bought it. And I knew it would do the same for many others.

Love the one you have of the kids trading!

And love the Article on card mania from 1909. It even mentions the Dukes mania of 20 years prior!

[trdcrdkid]

Some of the kids who collected cards in the 1880s later wrote down firsthand accounts. Here is a post of mine about the best known of them, Arthur Folwell, who wrote an article for the New Yorker in 1929 about his memories of collecting cards 40 years earlier:

https://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=202129

And here is a post with a couple of articles from Card Collector's Bulletin in the 1940s, with people's memories of collecting tobacco cards back in the 1880s:

https://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=239836

[Lucas00]

Originally Posted by trdcrdkid

Some of the kids who collected cards in the 1880s later wrote down firsthand accounts. Here is a post of mine about the best known of them, Arthur Folwell, who wrote an article for the New Yorker in 1929 about his memories of collecting cards 40 years earlier:

https://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=202129

And here is a post with a couple of articles from Card Collector's Bulletin in the 1940s, with people's memories of collecting tobacco cards back in the 1880s:

https://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=239836

Thank you for sharing the posts again. They were very good reads. Gave insight that I thought didn't exist!

[Jay Wolt]

Here's a similar postcard a couple decades after the 1889 N85 Duke's
I have about 8-10 different ones

[Eric72]

Originally Posted by Jay Wolt

Here's a similar postcard a couple decades after the 1889 N85 Duke's
I have about 8-10 different ones

Someone should create a similar image - using Target, sports card distributors, and blaster boxes. Replace the kids with images of flippers carrying Pelican cases.

[Rhotchkiss]

Jay, that postcard is totally awesome!