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Originally Posted by rats60
Why would they classify a card as a t206 that isn't? Burdick gave white border cards the t206 classification and Coupons t213 for a reason.
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Burdick wasn't perfect and as he started mounting his collection at the Met, others took over more duties in the cataloguing he had handled previously. Don't get me wrong, his research was monumental and mostly done by mail but things get updated in any discipline or field as new information comes in.
The fact collectors many decades later still use the ACC numbering system (the final, 1960 version as earlier versions had different schemes) is proof of just how well he did his research but the idea was always to add to it, either via the Updates published for a dozen years in the Card Collectors Bulletin by Buck Barker or via the physical updating of the catalog, which was aborted in 1967 by Woody Gelman for unknown reasons but 7 year updates were the idea and the historical precedent (1939, 1946, 1953, 1960). Supplements were issued as well annually for many years and incorporated in the next edition.
In fact, toward the late 60's the "R" section was getting a bit of a makeover in the updates, with a system that referenced the year of issue. It's about impossible to pull off now with so many cards and variants issued every year but a guide that was updated through 2000 would be fantastic and something this hobby desperately needs IMO.