Who Is Larry Fritsch?

[G1911]

One of the biggest dealers in hobby history. Larry Fritsch discovered the T206 Doyle variation among many other things, and was one of the early guys to turn third party card sales into a proper business. His son runs the company now, after his death. His pricing was and is often high. In the older days, he was largely known for having pretty much everything.

The reprints he had made are not attempts at fraud and are easily discernible as different. He just put out some affordable reprint sets for people in his catalogs.

[RCMcKenzie]

www.fritschcards.com/about-us/


About 25 years ago I talked to Jeff on the phone when I was buying about 15 T213-1 from their one of a kind catalog. Nice guy. He kept wanting to know if I was a dealer, because he only wanted to sell to me if I was working on the set. I believe the grandson runs it now.

[sb1]

Actually Jeff passed away over five years ago. The company is still operated by family members. A large amount of unopened material that Larry and Jeff stashed away years ago is regularly brought to market by an AH in the area as well.