T206 Collecting in 1909

[robw1959]

Originally Posted by bbcard1

None whatsoever, so I am assuming it is Honus Wagner.

In that case, it can't be the same card that the old man told you about because his Wagner picture was pasted to the back. So the ball player on front would still be visible.

[brianp-beme]

Originally Posted by robw1959

In that case, it can't be the same card that the old man told you about because his Wagner picture was pasted to the back. So the ball player on front would still be visible.

I might be mistaken, but I think Todd meant that this Honus action shot was pasted on the front of a card with a Piedmont back.

Brian (sometimes known to be occasionally mistakenly mistaken on occasion)

[Yankees1964]

Love this story. I wish our collections could talk. I wonder where they have been. As a kid in the early 70's flipping cards, I remember how much it would suck to come home from school and have lost cards and how good it felt to come home with a haul.

Must also have been the same for the kid waiting outside the store hoping to get a Cobb or a Matty and getting a Karger or Byrne!

[bbcard1]

Originally Posted by brianp-beme

I might be mistaken, but I think Todd meant that this Honus action shot was pasted on the front of a card with a Piedmont back.

Brian (sometimes known to be occasionally mistakenly mistaken on occasion)

That is a correct interpretation!

[teza11]

This has probably been shown before. 1880's Duke tobacco card illustrating that kids did not wait until 1909 to demand cards from cigarette consumers.

Jeff

[chriskim]

u nailed it Jeff! thx for sharing!

[ParachromBleu]

Great thread, love this stuff!

[rootsearcher60]

Just a few more.
Washington DC seemed to have a lot of action. A barber was offering baseball cards to kids when they got a haircut (Wash Post 22 July 1909); someone was selling 200 cards for $1.00 (Wash Post 14 April 1910) and a dealer was advertising cards for sale (Wash Post 30 Oct 1910). The dealer had a want ad in the paper weekly for months.
And finally, a Florida distributor was advertising a large shipment of cigarettes which included one coupon and two pictures (Tampa Tribune, 18 August 1909.) I would spend my almost complete Morgan Dollar collection if I could go back in time and buy these cards.

Michael