How many known collections have been lost

[Vintage Vern]

Originally Posted by Bigdaddy

Sometimes while looking at old baseball photos, I ponder the reverse question - How many (or what percentage) of those bats, jerseys, cards, gloves, etc. survived?

For example, how many of the bats in this photo of Honus survived? Or, what happened to the sweater he is wearing?

Yeah, old pictures just have something about them.
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[Vintage Vern]

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[ullmandds]

i recall someone in the hobby retelling how he accidentally threw away a 33 butter cream ruth card. that's a big loss!

[bnorth]

Nothing special, a few years ago I went through and got rid of a few 100K junk wax cards by burning them. Anyway I ended up burning some 1990 Donruss Aqueous Test cards. I never looked at the card backs.

[Vintage Vern]

Originally Posted by ullmandds

i recall someone in the hobby retelling how he accidentally threw away a 33 butter cream ruth card. that's a big loss!

The skydash collection also had some huge losses.

[Vintage Vern]

Does anyone think a large collection of Curtis Ireland E123 will ever surface?

[ctownboy]

I have told this story before but back in the early 1990's, I went to a large collector's show looking for sports items. One dealer from St. Louis had a lot of sports items displayed. Then in a showcase were a stack of baseball cards.

The stack consisted of American Caramel and Curtis Ireland Candy cards. There were at least 20 Curtis Ireland cards including a Ty Cobb with black construction paper on the back. The dealer was asking $1300 for the stack and he wouldn't sell any cards individually.

Being a college student, I didn't have $1300 so I called my friend Ted Koch and he came to the show and bought the stack for $1000 cash. He gave me a Curtis Ireland card as a finders fee. He kept the cards for some years before consigning them to Lew Lipset around 2002. If anyone has a catalog from that auction, I would really like to see how many Curtis Ireland cards there were.

David

[obcbeatle]

Originally Posted by Vintage Vern

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I've never seen this cool photo before , I assume the big dude right in the middle, staring at the photographer, is Rube Waddell ?

[1880nonsports]

"I've met some collectors of various items that lose track of stuff shipped to their house, or items sit in boxes unopened for months/years. Often they can't even tell you what's in the box when they rediscover it unless they open it.

I've met more than a few card collectors that open package, add to an existing stack of stuff, and "I'll sort it later" with months+ old shipments waiting to be put away somewhere.

I keep telling myself if I ever get to any of those points I need to question my own motivations behind collecting."

Is there still hope for me?

[Vintage Vern]

Originally Posted by obcbeatle

I've never seen this cool photo before , I assume the big dude right in the middle, staring at the photographer, is Rube Waddell ?

I don't think it is. He passed away on April 1st 1914. This was the 1914 Louisville Colonels team photo. Has Verne Clemons in it.

[Mark17]

Originally Posted by Vintage Vern

I don't think it is. He passed away on April 1st 1914. This was the 1914 Louisville Colonels team photo. Has Verne Clemons in it.

Waddell was in a sanitarium in San Antonio in early 1914, and died that year, on April Fools' Day.

At first I thought the guy lying down in the middle looked like Mordecai Brown, but it can't be because he still has his right index finger on.

[Casey2296]

Would be interesting to see the Collectors Insurance loss claim database to get an idea of what has been lost.