Interesting article from 1944

[Leon]

Thanks for sharing Marc. I think information flowed fairly slowly in the card collecting of the 1940's...The 1943 ACC Supplement has the Wagner and Plank each valued at the whopping sum of $2.00. Great article and thanks again for showing it.

[canjond]

Originally Posted by Leon

Thanks for sharing Marc. I think information flowed fairly slowly in the card collecting of the 1940's...The 1943 ACC Supplement has the Wagner and Plank each valued at the whopping sum of $2.00 ea. Great article and thanks again for showing it.

Do we know which Wagner was the Bray Wagner? I recall one having a similar diamond cut.

[Leon]

Originally Posted by canjond

Do we know which Wagner was the Bray Wagner? I recall one having a similar diamond cut.

The Bray Wagner was a hand cut one with a Piedmont back. A very nice and low profile board member owns it. It was sold by Mastro, with a letter of provenance, in 2001.

[Jaybird]

very cool. Thanks for sharing. I love how it ties in with Leon's CCBs as well since they mention the monthly bulletin after the part with the Burdick quotes. Fantastic. I eat up this history stuff.

[bbcard1]

For many many years, the problem was not the value it was simply that no one was willing to sell the cards at the low value quoted. It just wasn't worth the trouble.

[E93]

I really enjoy reading these old articles. Thank you.

My memory could be failing me, but I thought that Bray purchased the Piedmont Wagner in the 1950s (from a letter of inquiry in 1956?). I can check my old Mastro catalog later on that. That Piedmont Wagner was much more obviously hand-cut than the one shown in the article which is attributed to Bray. Maybe the Piedmont one was his second.
JimB

[Leon]

Originally Posted by E93

I really enjoy reading these old articles. Thank you.

My memory could be failing me, but I thought that Bray purchased the Piedmont Wagner in the 1950s (from a letter of inquiry in 1956?). I can check my old Mastro catalog later on that. That Piedmont Wagner was much more obviously hand-cut than the one shown in the article which is attributed to Bray. Maybe the Piedmont one was his second.
JimB

The letter/envelope was dated April, 1958 and I believe that is the same card in the picture above.....It was more wavy on the left side (as looking at it and can't be seen in the article above) than the right side. From my understanding only that one and the Gretzky (hand cut) PSA 8 have Piedmont backs.