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Old 10-31-2015, 01:40 PM
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It's New Years Eve 1937 and time to write a hobby letter!!

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Royce (hi Royce) asked about card collecting documentaries. While not on video or online anywhere these letters give a nice glimpse of the infancy of organized card collecting in the US.






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A few more from 1938....."They aren't in very good condition. Looked as though they had been flipped....."



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Leon, many thanks, bro, for your painstaking time and trouble to load up these priceless card hobby artifacts from the past. Very interesting.

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I picked up this envelope that once contained correspondence from Tommy Leach to John D.Wagner. Unfortunately, it does not have it's original contents.
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Leon, many thanks, bro, for your painstaking time and trouble to load up these priceless card hobby artifacts from the past. Very interesting.

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You are welcome!! And thanks for posting the envelope, Marshall. It is scarce in itself. Here are some more...(I will try to make the scans larger larger later when Yahoo webhosting comes back up)
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Some more letters received from ads placed in Hobbies Magazine in the mid to later 1930s....





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Would love to find the letter that was in this envelope.
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