The John D Wagner Hobby Letters - 1930s on...

[ksfarmboy]

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

[Leon]

Originally Posted by ksfarmboy

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

That is a neat one for sure and would love to see what Clarke wrote. Here are a few more. These letters make it seem casual to be able to see this correspondence but in my years I haven't seen a lot of it this early. Happy reading...

[Leon]

The first letter is in quite the collecting spirit.

And after those 2 pages a few more early hobby letters with the first letter being the recommendation to send the second one.

[T206Collector]

Originally Posted by ksfarmboy

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

Wonder if it had this card inside it!

[ksfarmboy]

Originally Posted by T206Collector

Wonder if it had this card inside it!

That would be cool!😃

[Leon]

Here is another letter to Wagner from 1939. There are quite a few in this thread but I believe these kind of (very early) hobby letters are very, very rare.

[GasHouseGang]

Thanks for posting these Leon. They are interesting. I loved this quote. “I never yet saw a hobbyless person that was worth an obstruction in a stream.” Classic stuff.

[Leon]

Resurrected with another letter to early collector, John Wagner. It reminds me of our BST but with days, weeks or months in between feedback.

[trdcrdkid]

Originally Posted by Leon

Resurrected with another letter to early collector, John Wagner. It reminds me of our BST but with days, weeks or months in between feedback.

The writer of this letter, James N. Colkitt, died four years letter, thus prompting J. R. Burdick to hold the first-ever card auction in the pages of Card Collector's Bulletin in October 1943, in which an anonymous collector bought Colkitt's entire collection for over $400. Lionel Carter described all this almost exactly 30 years after the letter in the August 1, 1969 CCB, which I posted here:

http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=218786

Leon, you mentioned in the comments to that post that several of the people Carter mentioned make appearances in the Wagner hobby letters, and here is a perfect example.