Early Hobby Baseball Card Collectors

Leon · #1 03-08-2024, 10:08 AM

I was hoping this would be about early collectors. Things don't always go according to plan though.

brianp-beme · #2 03-08-2024, 01:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Leon

I was hoping this would be about early collectors. Things don't always go according to plan though.

James Cagney approves of Buck Barker's creative use of pen and available space on this Zeenut.

Brian

Vintagedeputy · #3 03-08-2024, 01:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Leon

I was hoping this would be about early collectors. Things don't always go according to plan though.

At least we�re consistent, if not infuriating!

Bobsbats · #4 03-08-2024, 01:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Vintagedeputy

At least we�re consistent, if not infuriating!

+1

Leon · #5 03-11-2024, 06:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Vintagedeputy

At least we�re consistent, if not infuriating!

Infuriating is kind of harsh. More like annoying

....We almost all do it and I am as guilty as the rest.

For our PCL fans.....

Jay Wolt · #6 03-11-2024, 06:48 PM

two hobby pioneers Lionel Carter & Frank Nagy's T201 cards

brianp-beme · #7 03-11-2024, 07:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Leon

For our PCL fans.....

]

Nice Dick Dobbins postcard. I have something somewhat related to Dobbins, a Zeenut with Buck Barker's writing, and at the bottom border is a notation by Buck that indicates he obtained the card in 1975 from Dick Dobbins.

Brian

T206Collector · #8 03-11-2024, 08:17 PM

Very proud to have a signed T206 card from the John D. Wagner collection�

T206Collector · #9 03-11-2024, 08:20 PM

And a signed T201 from the Jefferson Burdick collection. I have a theory that Wagner traded with his friend Jeff for the T201 and then sent it to Leifield for the signature.

EddieP · #10 03-12-2024, 10:57 AM

WWII spy and saboteur, Edward C. Wharton-Tigar was voted in the Card Collectors Hall of Fame in 1971. At the time of his death, Wharton-Tigar held the Guiness Book of World Records of the largest collection of cigarette cards. His collection now resides in the British Museum.

Here is his bio from the British Museum:

�Mining engineer, SOE operative, director of the Selection Trust, and collector of trade cards, especially cigarette cards. Began collecting in 1920, and by his death had formed the world's greatest collection which he bequeathed to the BM. It is registered as a group under 2006,0201.1. He was the founder in 1938, and president of the Cartophilic Society of Great Britain, and his index system and the cards in his collection form the basis for the 'World Index of Tobacco Cards' in many printed volumes.�

robw1959 · #11 03-14-2024, 11:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Leon

I was hoping this would be about early collectors. Things don't always go according to plan though.

That picture of him reminds me of my next door neighbors, the Burdicks, on Janet Drive, where I grew up from 1965 to 1971 in Syracuse. I mean the resemblance is strikingly similar to that of a boy in that family by the name of David, who at the time was a couple of years older than me. I am pretty sure they were related to old Jefferson himself in some fashion.

BeanTown · #12 03-15-2024, 11:22 PM

First Net54 Dinner or close to it.. Many still collecting

Leon · #13 03-18-2024, 01:33 PM

Lot's of old hobby friends there....
.

EddieP · #14 03-19-2024, 04:36 AM

Benjamin K. Edwards. His cards currently reside in the Library of Congress. The collection was featured in the CBS Evening News in 2012

Quote:

This collection from the Library of Congress features early baseball cards dating from 1887 to 1914. Cigarette card collector Benjamin K. Edwards preserved these baseball cards in albums with more than 12,000 other cards on many subjects. After his death, Edwards' daughter gave the albums to noted poet and Lincoln biographer Carl Sandburg, who donated them to the Library's Prints and Photographs Division in 1954.

https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/bas...m-1880s-1910s/

From the LOC Website:

.

Quote:

This collection presents a Library of Congress treasure�2,100 early baseball cards dating from 1887 to 1914. The cards show such legendary figures as Ty Cobb stealing third base for Detroit, Tris Speaker batting for Boston, and pitcher Cy Young posing formally in his Cleveland uniform. Other notable players include Connie Mack, Walter Johnson, King Kelly, and Christy Mathewson.
Cigarette card collector Benjamin K. Edwards preserved these baseball cards in albums with more than 12,000 other cards on many subjects. After his death, Edwards' daughter gave the albums to noted poet and Lincoln biographer Carl Sandburg, who donated them to the Library's Prints and Photographs Division in 1954.

T206Collector · #15 03-20-2024, 11:08 AM

16 years ago I did a couple of interviews with hobby legends Lionel Carter and Jeff Morey. You can listen to those on my website at:

https://www.signedt206.com/lionel-carter-interview

https://www.signedt206.com/jeff-morey-collection

I also visited the Leopold Morse Goulston collection of T206 cards at the New York Public Library and wrote an article about it (and even donated some missing T206 cards to that collection). Goulston had a gorgeous Wagner which is still in that library.

You can see the article here:

https://www.signedt206.com/goulston-t206-collection

Similar Threads
Thread	Thread Starter	Forum	Replies	Last Post
WTB Card Collectors Bulletins and Card Hobby Pubs	Leon	Baseball Memorabilia B/S/T	0	06-16-2020 02:04 PM
Card Collectors Bulletin and early hobby history (in Sport Fan)	trdcrdkid	Net54baseball Vintage (WWII & Older) Baseball Cards & New Member Introductions	1	04-30-2016 10:31 PM
1965 Rich Egan article on Card Collectors Bulletin, early hobby history	trdcrdkid	Net54baseball Vintage (WWII & Older) Baseball Cards & New Member Introductions	2	04-26-2016 06:28 PM
A Hobby Link (Card Collectors Bulletin, ACC and early Topps)	toppcat	Postwar Baseball Cards Forum (Pre-1980)	3	04-28-2012 09:26 AM
A Hobby Link (Card Collectors Bulletin, ACC and early Topps)	toppcat	Net54baseball Vintage (WWII & Older) Baseball Cards & New Member Introductions	0	04-12-2012 07:02 AM