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(October 2004, Issue #6) www.oldcardboard.com
Hello vintage card collecting friends! Welcome to Old Cardboard, the most complete reference resource for information about collecting vintage baseball
cards and related memorabilia. More
information about this eNewsletter and its companion website and magazine are
found at the bottom of this page.
Contents:
1. Updated Auction and Show
Calendar
2. Reader Participation Welcome and Appreciated 3. Old
Cardboard Magazine Distribution Status (an
update)
4. Set
of the Month
5. Collector
Qustions--Hage's Dairy
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1. Updated Auction and Show
Calendar*
The following is a summary of vintage card
events coming up in the next 30-45 days.
For details on all upcoming vintage card shows and
auctions see the auction
calendar on the Old
Cardboard website.
October
2004
22nd
Internet MastroNet
Classic Collector
Auction
22nd
Internet 19thCenturyOnly
Auction
November
2004
1-12
Internet
CubanBaseballCards.com Winter
Auction
3-4
Internet
Lew Lipset Auction
6
Louisville/Internet Hunt
Auctions
11
Catalog/Internet Mile High Card
Company Premier Catalog/Internet
Auction
12-14 Cleveland
Tri-Star Show at I-X
Center
17
Internet
Memory Lane Buried Treasures
Auction
17-18 Catalog/Internet
Collectible Classics Catalog/Internet Auction
#5
*To add an
auction or vintage show date to our calendar just send an email to brett@oldcardboard.com and
we'll be happy to post it for you. The designates an Old
Cardboard website
sponsor.
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2. Reader Participation Welcome and
Appreciated
The quality of the subjects covered in
Old Cardboard magazine is to a large extent determined by you, our
subscribers and readers. Now that the inaugural issue is out, you can see
first hand the general format of each section--a format that will continue
for future editions. We invite all readers to consider submitting
articles, interesting new finds for the Editor's Notebook, brief personal
profiles for Collector's Dugout and other feedback. Both the staff at
Old Cardboard and your fellow collectors will thank you
for your participation.
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3. Old Cardboard Magazine Distribution
Status (an update)
By now just about all
subscribers should have received their copy of the inaugural issue of
Old Cardboard Magazine. However, we continue to get reports that
copies are still being delivered to some subscribers and that a few
have not yet been delivered. The distribution of the magazine
after we delivered it to USPS has been the most disappointing aspect of
getting the first issue launched.
We are monitoring
the distribution process very closely and looking for ways to
reduce the delivery times for future issues. Earlier this week we held a
very constructive meeting with the key person at the USPS regional station
responsible for bulk and periodical mail. We are looking at all possible
options for reducing the magazine delivery time once it gets to USPS.
However, it looks like
we will be following the same process used for the first issue for at
least one more cycle. By then paperwork should be
completed and approved to gain USPS "Publication" status which will
hopefully result in a somewhat faster
delivery.
Meanwhile,
we assure you that we are very serious about meeting our promised
schedules and will take all reasonable measures to do so.
We appreciate your patience and your
support.
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4. Set
of the Month
For
this month's set of the month, we will take a brief look at the back
variations of two different sets. One was issued in
1911 by the George Close Candy Company of Cambridge, MA and the other
was produced in 1943 by M. P. & Co. of New York, NY. Both sets
are known for the several variations found on the card backs as well as the
fronts.
a) 1911 George Close Candy (Hobby
designation: E94). Each of the 30-cards in this set was printed in a
variety of solid color backgrounds including green, red, blue, purple and
gold. The card backs contain a printed checklist of all 30 players in
the set. In addition, the card backs are sometimes found with a
color "overprint" advertising one of the company's several candy products.
An example of one overprint, for Blome's Chocolates," is shown
here.
The
overprints are not frequently encountered and several of the 10 known overprint
variations are quite rare. In fact, the 10th variation, "Oh You Fan," was
only discovered in the last few years--at the 2002 National Convention in
Chicago. Collector Leon Luckey has recently completed the only complete
set of all known back variations. All ten backs are shown on the Old
Cardboard website (see George Close Candy link above) and will be displayed
in the Editor,s Notebook section
of the next issue of Old Cardboard Magazine (Issue #2, Winter
2005).
b) 1943 M. P. & Co. (Hobby
designation: R302-1). Another set that has intrigued collectors because of
its back variations is this crudely printed and often roughly hand cut
issue. It is one of the very few baseball sets produced during
the second World War. Three different back variations are shown at
right--based primarily on the format and use of the team name in the title
and the inclusion (or exclusion) of the M. P. & Co. imprint and
the "Made in U.S.A." imprints at the bottom of the card. Other
variations, however, have also been
identified.
Collector Ronald Rembert, who provided the example images
shown, has been collecting and researching variations in the 1943 M.
P. & Co. set for some time and would like to compare notes with
others who may have done the same. He is also interested in any
information relating to the M. P. & Co. of New York City. Ron can
be contacted at rrembert@wilmington.edu. The
results of his study will be reported in a future issue of Old
Cardboard Magazine.
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5. Collector
Question--Hage's
Dairy Collector Corey Coljeski has
recently discovered about 100 Hage's Dairy cards and would like to get
in touch with others who collect the set. In particular, he is interested
in learning about the many variations known for the set and notes that
some of the cards have ad/stat backs while others are blank backed (see examples
above for the two back variations on cards of player Harry Simpson).
Corey can be contacted at Firedawg45@aol.com.
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Lyman and Brett
Hardeman
Old Cardboard,
LLC.
Old Cardboard, LLC. was established in December, 2003, to help bring information on vintage baseball card collecting to the hobbyist. Produced by collectors for collectors, this comprehensive resource consists of three components: (1) Old Cardboard Magazine, (2) a companion website at www.oldcardboard.com, and (3) this eNewsletter. The Old Cardboard website contains more than 500 pages of descriptive reference information for baseball card sets produced before 1950. Each of these set summaries has a direct set-specific link to auctions and a similar link to 's powerful search engine for further research. The website also includes a Show and Auction Calendar, an eBay Top 50 Vintage Sellers List, and much more. As a result, the Old Cardboard website makes a great "Alt-tab" companion for vintage card shoppers and researchers. Old Cardboard eNews provides current hobby news, upcoming shows and auctions, and updates to the website and the magazine. It is published around the middle of each month. For a FREE subscription to the eNewsletter, or for subscription information on the newly launched Old Cardboard Magazine, please visit the home page of the website at www.oldcardboard.com. If you find this
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