What collectors did for a living in 1972
 

The "What do you do for a living" thread reminds me of this column by Wirt Gammon in the May 1972 Ballcard Collector, in which he gives the professions of a long list of prominent collectors of the time, including big names like Lionel Carter, Buck Barker, Charles Bray, Frank Nagy, etc. I figured I would give this its own thread so it doesn't get lost in the shuffle.

And note Gammon's ad on the second page, in which he says he has thousands of T206s for sale or trade. You got 20 free T206s for subscribing to his newsletter, and he would sell them to you for 45 cents your choice, 40 cents his choice, with a discount for big lots -- only a quarter each if you bought 600!

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Ron Menchine was at my house about 3 times a year cherry picking baseball postcards . He and my Dad were trading partners .

Ron came to my apartment in the early 70's and brought a BIG bottle of booze and downed it all in about four hours!

Nice guy with great stories.

Fred

The green stamps trade offer is classic.....

I fought the law, but the lawyers won (eventually)
 

Unless I overlooked it, none of the collectors in this 1972 list are attorneys. Just pointing out...

Brian

At least one was, with the NLRB, about middle of the first paragraph.

Kind of interesting and I still have interest in that sort of thing, especially when you start to see the separation from kids collecting off their allowances, birthday money and odd job funds to those who obviously have no financial constraints whatsoever and the rest of us landing somewhere along the spectrum in the middle.

To this day I'm still friends with Robert Thing from Maine.

John