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The first published hobby article, 1935....noted here
Posted By: leon
I am going through some more old hobby publications loaned to me by my good friend John Esch.. This article I will be quoting is from the Sports Fan, March-April, 1981. This is one of the newest publications loaned to me so far. I found an interesting article, extremely lengthy, written by Lionel Carter. A short while back I believe someone on the board had asked what Lionel had ever done for the hobby? It seems as though not only was he just about the most prolific writer in the later 30's to 70's, on card collecting and the hobby, but also wrote the very first article ever published on card collecting, even before Jeff Burdick. Here is an excerpt from the 3-4 page article.....(there are a few typos in the article and I left them the way they were written.....) |
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The first published hobby article, 1935....noted here
Posted By: joe brennan
Great read Leon. TY |
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The first published hobby article, 1935....noted here
Posted By: peter ullman
great stuff...keep it coming! |
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The first published hobby article, 1935....noted here
Posted By: peter chao
Thanks for the article. |
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The first published hobby article, 1935....noted here
Posted By: Rob
Is there a place where reproductions of some of these early hobby publications can be purchased? I enjoy the reading, thanks Leon! |
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The first published hobby article, 1935....noted here
Posted By: leon
I wish there were a place where we could just buy all of the old publications already copied. I don't know of any place like that. As you are in the hobby continue to ask friends if they have old publications and if they would mind if you make a copy for yourself. Usually if you are polite, and are really in it for the knowledge, and not to make a profit off of them, they will let you do it. I promised my friend I would never reproduce any of the ones he let me copy.....they are for my personal use only....He knows how passionate I am and had no issue.....good luck....also, I will try to post some more stuff like this soon. Even though only a few respond I am pretty sure a lot of folks like reading this old stuff. I thought this was particularly neat as it mentioned the very first published card hobby article.....regards |
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The first published hobby article, 1935....noted here
Posted By: Frank Wakefield
Well I've found a library that has the December 1935 issue of Hobbies Magazine, but they want to know the name of the article before they'll copy it. And they want some money. I'm going to send them money and an SASE, whatever I get I'll scan and post. |
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The first published hobby article, 1935....noted here
Posted By: Alan
I wonder if some antique/book shops that carry old magazines, newspapers, and publications might have this kind of stuff ? |
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The first published hobby article, 1935....noted here
Posted By: leon
Maybe you can tell them it was concerning baseball cards and was written by Lionel Carter? That should peg the correct one.....I would love to read it..... |
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The first published hobby article, 1935....noted here
Posted By: Joseph
SCD, of all places, actually wrote (not too long ago) about an earlier and no doubt more widely read article about tobacco cards. In the May 4, 1929 issue of The New Yorker, Arthur Folwell--in a article entitled "A New York Childhood - Cigarette Pictures"--writes about his youthful experiences collecting these little gems. Wonderfully whimsical piece, it has a picture of an Allen & Ginter Glasscock, a discourse on "Gold Coin" ballplayers, and pays homage to Old Judges ("There has never been anything like the Old Judge ball players"). The article, which basically ends in scope before the turn of the century, covers all types of cigarette cards, but it's obvious the writer is a baseball fan. |
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The first published hobby article, 1935....noted here
Posted By: leon
Neat stuff.....Please do send a pdf to my email. I would love to read it. Back in 1981 I am sure Mr.Carter had no clue of the other article. It's freakin' amazing the way info flies now compared to even 20 yrs ago....None of us would have near the collection, in the time it takes to assemble one, without today's technology, imho....regards |
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The first published hobby article, 1935....noted here
Posted By: Tom Boblitt
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The first published hobby article, 1935....noted here
Posted By: peter chao
With the lightning fast spread of information, vintage cards may become interesting to a greater segment of the population. Then we'll get more scans. |
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The first published hobby article, 1935....noted here
Posted By: Alan
If there's no copywrite issue, maybe the collectors that have these could make copies & make them available for others at the National. Just a thought. |
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The first published hobby article, 1935....noted here
Posted By: Frank Wakefield
Hey Leon, |
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The first published hobby article, 1935....noted here
Posted By: leon
I don't know if he wrote one in the later magazine....he mentioned he wrote one before that but I am not sure it said the exact one he wrote the first one for. Also, Joseph was nice enough to send me the earlier article too, circa 1929....very cool....info in the hobby is always getting updated and that's a good thing.... I know of a ton of stuff that has been updated in the last several years.... |
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