show your cards from the original owner

[tonyo]

My only other cards of known provenance: Nov 2010 I was working on the monster and bought about 20 t206's from a lady in Virginia. The ebay listing said they belonged to the lady's uncle. I asked if she could tell me a bit more about him and her husband wrote the following note:


"My uncle Robert Buchanan Owens was born in Mason County Kentucky in 1901 and passed in 1970. He was in the military, I think the signal corp and stationed in England during WWII. His family had a English ancestry and he enjoyed having his tea each morning, with a cut rose on his table from his flowers. He was a Travelers insurance agent for 30 to 34 years. He and his brother Frank S. Owens must have collected these cards together. You can go to http://books.google.com/books?id=qPs...e%20ky&f=false to find more about his brother Frank S. who father had a Ohio River ferry named after him. Uncle Bob was a kind man, who with my aunt Viola, were very involved in the community and their church. Since he lived close to Cincinnati, the Reds were his favorite team. He was a gardener having as I remember huge flower beds of rose. He enjoyed golf and was an active golfer. Finally, I cannot remember many days that Uncle Bob did not have a crisp starched white shirt, a tie, with a sport coat or suit. I hope you children and yourself enjoy he and his brother's baseball cards. ,, Tom "

[AMBST95]

I'm not sure if I'm truly the second owner, but I bought this card from LOTG last spring. It comes from a family collection dating back to the turn of the century. It has a back stamp of William Born while the others sold in that auction state Ernest Born. How the 2 were related, I'm not too sure, but I'd guess that I may be the 2nd/3rd owner at best or if the Born's got the card trading with their friends back in the late 1800s or early 1900s, I may be actually far down along the chain. Either way, I'm glad to own the card and am able to date the card at least to the early 1900s and possibly to when it was pack fresh.

[frankbmd]

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