Hobby history: Auction results 1977-78 (incl. 1952 Mantle), reported by Lew Lipset

[toppcat]

Hi David-nice to meet you at the end of the N54 dinner! IIRC Scharf's Exhibit series didn't reach conclusion before TTS folded. I wonder if he finished it off in some other publication?

[trdcrdkid]

Originally Posted by toppcat

Hi David-nice to meet you at the end of the N54 dinner! IIRC Scharf's Exhibit series didn't reach conclusion before TTS folded. I wonder if he finished it off in some other publication?

It was a pleasure to meet you in person too, Dave, however briefly. Hopefully we can talk more at a future National.

I've just looked, and it appears that Scharf did write his Exhibit series, which included some articles on postcards, semi-regularly from January 1978 until almost the end of TTS. (It was an expansion of a series he had originally written as typewritten supplements to The Ballcard Collector starting in 1971.) In the July 1983 TTS, Dan Dischley's third-to-last issue, Scharf had an Exhibit article which he said was the 38th he had written, and he said there was enough material for three or four more. I haven't had time to dig out the August 1983 issue, but Scharf did not have an article in the September 1983 issue (Dischley's last), or in any of the six issues published by Sonny Jackson before it folded. If he did complete the series, I assume it would have been in either Sports Collector's Digest or Baseball Hobby News. I'll try to look at those one of these days when I have time.