Writing and stamps on Old Judge backs.

[T206Collector]

Originally Posted by scooter729

I wonder - when was it acceptable to write on cards? I mean by collectors, and not just kids. I have seen many instances where the ACC designation of E98, etc., is written on the cards, so apparently it was OK among collectors to write on them at least into the 1930s. I wonder when this stopped becoming a normal practice?

A couple of interesting (to me at least) ones from the T206 set:

[Exhibitman]

Anyone seen this back stamping before?



The stamp is Burdick's; that "B" appears in albums in the Met that I saw when I visited there.

[uffda51]

Whoever wrote this note about Werrick had great penmanship! Has anyone seen other cards with this kind of printing?

[cfc1909]

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[Joe_G.]

Great looking cards. I have a number of different stamps but nothing as cool as Rhett's advertising. Thanks to all for sharing.

Originally Posted by uffda51

Whoever wrote this note about Werrick had great penmanship! Has anyone seen other cards with this kind of printing?

Any chance of seeing it under a loupe. What the person was describing??

[GasHouseGang]

I have some cards I purchased long ago, that the dealer wrote the price on the back of the card in pencil. Not too smart, but it used to happen in the early 1970's and 80'. So writing on the card backs continued for some time, even by people who should have known better.

[oldjudge]

Bruce-Great card! In your scan you can see some of the "Paul" in St Paul in the lower right portion of the image

[uffda51]

It's (the Werrrick card) very hard to read, even with a loupe. The "W" in Werrick and the "Paul" in St. Paul are the easiest to make out. The example in The Old Judge book exhibits a bit more contrast than my example and is a little bit easier to make out. The writing on the back certainly seems more recent than any other writing I've seen on N172s.

[jdubbs10]

Here is my Mcphee with writing on the back.

[Doug]

I used to own this SGC 20 Ed Delahanty that had "WFS" written on the back: http://robertedwardauctions.com/auction/2009/39.html I recall someone in the chat room having a N172 with the same initials on it so there must be a few of them out there.