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Yankeefan51.
Representative examples from The Burdick Collection are always on
display. Said examples are sometimes rotated.
Baseball cards are also on permanent display at The Smithsonian Museum
in Washington ( a national museum) and in the Boston Public Library Collection.
As patron members of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, we have attended
Several special exhibitions where a number of cards from the Burdick Collection
were displayed.
In fact, we have had several conversations with the Museum's curator
about the possibility of displaying other pieces from prominent collections.
There is a private print room which requires special access. It is
now quite difficult for the general public to arrange a visit. However,
it is well worth the effort. A number of samples from Burdick's original
collection were sold to Charles Bray, who in turn sold them to the
renowned British collector, the late Sir Edward Wharton Tigar.
It was in the aforementioned print room, where we first met Sir Edward Wharton
Tigar in 1979. Sir Edward was undertaking research for Volume IV of his
now legendary. World Tobacco Index. We were conducting research for
an artilcle which appeared in a national magazine.
Upon his death. Sir Edward Wharton Tigar donated his collection to The
British Museum. Whilst we are not aware if any baseball cards are currently
on exhibit, representative cards have been displayed in the past.
Later this month, the Museum of The City of New York will feature a major
exhibit entitled the Glory Days of Baseball. Said exhibit features many rate
items from the collections of Stephen Wong, Bill Gladstone as well as
from The Dorskind Collection.
We look forward to viewing the Denver Art Museum exhibit.
Bruce Dorskind
America's Toughest Want List