White Whale Captured*

[Jason Carota]

Congrats, Bruce! That is quite an amazing set and accomplishment.

[E93]

Incredible set and accomplishment! Is that the only known complete set?
JimB

[uffda51]

Originally Posted by E93

Is that the only known complete set?
JimB

I don't know if it's the only known complete set, Jim, but I haven't heard of another. I wouldn't be surprised if a veteran collector somewhere out there has a complete set. Perhaps someone who specialized in Newsboys in general.

Barry, for a whale, Newman was very light on his feet!

[barrysloate]

Except when he and Kramer ran into the cornfield...he almost had a heart attack!

[Kawika]

"Do you ever get the feeling that there's something going on that we don't know about?"
-Timothy Fenwick, Jr., 1982

A singular and spectacular collecting accomplishment! Good job!

[PGACPA]

kudos to you bruce! what a quest.
nice wilson there

[tbob]

Way to go Bruce! Congrats and happy holidays.
tbob

[rc4157]

Congratulations Bruce, that Ward is a classic!
RC

[ChiefBenderForever]

Congrats !! I don't really know anything about 19th century cards but am assuming this was monumental for you !

[Wite3]

Wow Bruce!
That is amazing...congrats!

Joshua

[oldjudge]

Great job Bruce!

[Potomac Yank]

I applaud you.

Now what?

You and I both know that the illness will not allow you to stop there.

What will be your next challenge?

Meanwhile, I say Bravo for this one.

[bijoem]

awesome Bruce!

congratulations on completing a 13 year journey.


your collection is incredible.

[edhans]

Spectacular! Thanks for sharing.

[Al C.risafulli]

Outstanding accomplishment.

At one point I considered making a run at completing this set. I gave up after, umm, one.

-Al

[wolfdogg]

Nice set and congradualtions....

[pro9]

Hi Mark, the card like all cabinets is two pieces, the mat and the photo portion. But, I think you are asking is "the photo portiion" two parts. The answer to that is no. I think the photo portion on Meekin (as well as Van Haltren) is a photo of a photo, with the original photo being photographed with a round cut out on top of it.

[autograf]

Bruce....I would tell you to go on to the other 600+ Newsboy cabinets, but I don't want any competition! As to Mark......there are really subtle differences with a lot of the Newsboys.....cropping, titles etched onto the negatives versus not, mount differences, etc. While they are attributed to mid 1890's, I wouldnt be surprised it they were used for a number of years for the product. I have a couple hundred of the non-baseball ones and concentrate mainly on non-actress ones and there are definitely variation in those. Battleships, Bicycle Riders, NYC Scenes, Washington DC scenes, etc.

Great stuff Bruce.........not sure if you've seen the Newsboy site that Michael Reeve in England did but it's located at:

http://www.newsboys.co.uk/

[bmarlowe1]

Originally Posted by pro9

Hi Mark, the card like all cabinets is two pieces, the mat and the photo portion. But, I think you are asking is "the photo portiion" two parts. The answer to that is no. I think the photo portion on Meekin (as well as Van Haltren) is a photo of a photo, with the original photo being photographed with a round cut out on top of it.

Pro9 (and Tom) - thanks for the explanation. In that case there is really a difference in the two Meekin cards I posted. I presume that collectors of the set don't regard this as significant.