Talking about American Card Catalogs

[Leon]

Originally Posted by toppcat

Is American Card Collector in fact related to the ACC? I have seen it in lists of old hobby mags but the type looks completely different than the one used in the ACC, IMHO.

I am still not 100% comfortable with that being a supplement. It makes no sense whatsoever to have a volume and no. on a supplement. None....

That being said there were different names for the supplements I have.....They were called -

1940 - Catalog Supplement
1941 - Catalog Supplement/Catalog Additions and Corrections
1942- Catalog Additions and Corrections
1943 - Catalog Supplement

However, one I have that is a mimeograph for 1955 says-
Further Additions - The Detroit Handbook - June 1955

I know I have more but need to look around some. Stuff is scattered everywhere right now . The last one I have at hand is from 1960 and says-
First Catalog Additions to 1960 Catalog

I will look around some more soon and see what more I can find. But my first thought above should be taken into account. I have seen 0 additions/supplements/Corrections that say they are a Volume and No., except above. BTW, I am not dissing on the item Jeffrompa showed, just a friendly debate. That is a neat item and certainly worthy of discussion.

regards

[toppcat]

Originally Posted by Leon

However, one I have that is a mimeograph for 1955 says-
Further Additions - The Detroit Handbook - June 1955

regards

Leon, is that Detroit update in fact an update for Burdick's History of Detroit Publishing Co. Postcards book? I'll bet it is. So it's not an ACC update but it IS a Burdick publication.

[Leon]

Dave- I just checked again. My blue hardback, like the one listed in the auction (I think), is dated 1960. I use the green copy one every day and it is dated 1988.

I will have to check that other question....not sure.

aha....I see the one listed on ebay is a soft cover. It probably is a 1967 then. It's confusing as the 1960 hard cover edition has a book cover that looks exactly like that 1967 reprint.

[toppcat]

Originally Posted by Leon

aha....I see the one listed on ebay is a soft cover. It probably is a 1967 then. It's confusing as the 1960 hard cover edition has a book cover that looks exactly like that 1967 reprint.

That makes a lot of sense, the reprint would have replicated the 60 bookcover.

[Leon]

Originally Posted by toppcat

That makes a lot of sense, the reprint would have replicated the 60 bookcover.

My 1960 has the book cover and has "American Card Catalog" on the spine of the book cover (not on the book itself). If you look at the one on ebay it has that and also "Nostalgia Press"....which of course the original doesn't have. Now, since I have added all of this rubbish to this thread I am going to dig out something real neat, and post it, to make up for it .

[toppcat]

While we wait Leon, I goggled Detroit Publishing and they look to have printed in excess of 14,500 postcards, many in full, glorious photographic color and starting in 1898.. NY Public Librrey has a huge collection of them. Burdick's original guide came out in 1954, the supplement (32 pages) followed in '55.