Heitman's t205, not t206

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Posted By: tobacco-r-us

Thank you for the update.
As much as I'm into and appreciate the T206 set, my personal favorite is the attractive and data filled T205 set.
I am definitely interested in any information about the set.
I'll gladly wait for a scan Guru to scan it if that is possible, because I don't want to make it an added burden on anyone.

I was just glancing at a booklet/binder that I won in an auction some time this year.
It's kind of beaten up, but it's interesting.
I don't know the exact year that it was published, but it's at least 50 years old.

The title is, [The American Book Of Checklist] by Charles R. Bray.

[This is a collection of the checklists as originally published in the Card Collectors Bulletin, Nos.1 - 60, with all known additions and corrections to 1950. List numbers are the same as set numbers in The American Card Catalog.]

I found his acknowledgment very interesting.

[Appreciation for the assistance and aid in compiling this book, goes to Mr. J. R. Burdick and Mr. Gene DiNardo.
While not complete, it is hoped that omissions will be reported when discovered, so that a supplement may be added sometime in the future.]

I find it interesting, that the searchers and diggers of that time would be aware and concerned with omissions.
Omissions, not so much by a faulty memory, but the omission of the undiscovered, and unknown cards of that time.

An example:
The T209 type II Contentneas.
There were only 130 known in 1950.
That's almost 100 less than what's known now.

The hunt, the search, that's where it's at.

Joe P.