What is the best bb card literature?

[Hot Springs Bathers]

A very nice reference piece for those interested in the history of cards and for those that often run upon odd issues would be an old issue of the London Cigarette Card Company's annual Tobacco Catalogue and its' companion the Trade Card Catalogue.

These list every worldwide issue from the 1800's on through whatever issue you can pick up. Very brief despcription listing issuer, size of card and number in set. No listings of individual cards in each set though. Few photos.

I don't know if they still offer printed catalogues or not but they do have an active website that I can't seem to search very well. Their chief competitor in the UK is the Murray Card Co. but I never found their catalogues quite as informative.

Also Beckett offered a non-sports big book a number of years ago that I have refered to a thousand times over the years including last week for some boxers and indian cards I ran across.

All of these should be very cheap when found and nice to have on the shelf.

[toppcat]

Originally Posted by Hot Springs Bathers

Their chief competitor in the UK is the Murray Card Co. but I never found their catalogues quite as informative.

Murray's is shutting down in two weeks:

http://www.murraycards.com/index.aspx

[vwtdi]

I have 2 new copies of "The Card" for sale if anyone is interested.

[t206blogcom]

I'm currently reading Baseball Americana: Treasures from the Library of Congress by Harry Katz. I found this at my local Borders for 60% off. So far, so good.



The Card was a good beach weekend read. Mint Condition is next on my list after finishing the Library of Congress book.

[Bosox Blair]

Originally Posted by t206blogcom

I'm currently reading Baseball Americana: Treasures from the Library of Congress by Harry Katz. I found this at my local Borders for 60% off. So far, so good.

This is the one they are currently giving away with a PSA club membership - I got it when I bought the (roughly) $100 membership at the National.

Cheers,
Blair