Has anyone seen Burdick's collection?

[Matthew H]

Originally Posted by Kawika

Archive Warshaw visited the Burdick Collection back in 2004 and gave an interesting report on the old Net54. You can read it here: http://tinyurl.com/245dkmq

Thank you for that. Maybe Baseball Cards will become popular enough one day for the whole collection to be on display.

[barrysloate]

That collection is too big to be completely on display.

Jay Miller and I wrote an article together about our trip to see the Burdick Collection. It's in a back issue of VCBC. I forget which one, but you can click the archive center link at the upper right corner of the main page to find it.

[Matthew H]

Thanks Barry, I'll check it out!

[T206Collector]

I was there about 6 months ago and they had both the Plank and Wagner on display. That was worth the trip for me.

[uffda51]

I was in NYC in 1999 and the Wagner (but not much else) was on display at the Met Museum + there another on display at the NY Public Library (main branch near Grand Central.

[tedzan]

In 1991, I made an appointment to see Burdick's collection. Back then you could view it album by album for hours.
The Met's guards hovered over you as you looked thru the albums in a "dungeon-like" room. Also, everytime you
requested another album, the guards acted as if it was quite a task.

Nonetheless, it was very fascinating looking at Burdick's cards, and it motivated me to complete my 1st T206 set.

Oh, in the album that contained Burdick's Goudey sets, the 1934 Nap Lajoie (#106) was loosely attached onto the
album's page that it caused it to flap around. Certainly, this was no way to treat such a neat card.


TED Z

We have visited the Burdick collection six times since 1976.

It was one of the most intellectually satisfying experiences we have
had as a collector.

On two of those visits we were fortunate enough to be studying the collection next to the legendary British card collector, Sir Edward Wharton Tigar. Sir Edward and Burdick were friends dating back to the 1930's

W developed a good friendship with Wharton and we made a number of trades.
We enjoyed two lovely evenings in London Flat- an entire floor of which
was devoted to Tobacco cards.

We were stunned to see a complete collection of Kalamazoo Team cabinets, Four Base Hits and hundreds of fresh Ramlys. We corresponded and traded
regularly over many years. When Sir Edward Wharton Togar passed he left his entire collection to the British Museum,

We are patron members of the Metropolitan of Art and have had specail
access to the collection.

It is always an honor and privilege to view the private collection which is now housed in the Met's elegant, quiet print room

Bruce Dorskind
America's Toughest Want List

[NATCARD]

Was there in May. Had about 100 cards or so on display in multi card frames including Wagner. The cards are on display in what is known as the displayable inventory and are not in amain part of the museum. This section is not always open and does depend on the number of scurity guards on duty for that particular day. Having owned a Wagner one in my life it was still a great display and the rest of the museum is specatcular.
JEFF W

[Kawika]

I think he's on to us.