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Only 500 catalogs were printed in 1939, increasing to 3,000 in its last edition of 1960. [3] It has become the de facto method in identifying and organizing trade cards produced in the Americas pre-1951. The book catalogues sports and non-sports cards, but is best known for its categorization of baseball cards. Sets like 1909-11 White Borders ...
The name T205 refers to the catalog designation assigned by Jefferson Burdick in his book The American Card Catalog. It is also known informally as the "Gold Borders" set due to the distinctive gold borders surrounding the lithographs on each card. The T205 set consists of 221 cards, which include many variations and short prints.
A Series 1934 $10,000 gold certificate depicting Salmon P. Chase, Smithsonian Institution. Gold certificates were issued by the United States Treasury as a form of representative money from 1865 to 1933. While the United States observed a gold standard, the certificates offered a more convenient way to pay in gold than the use of coins
Executive Order 6102 is an executive order signed on April 5, 1933, by US President Franklin D. Roosevelt "forbidding the hoarding of gold coin, gold bullion, and gold certificates within the continental United States."
Stendel, Robert; U.S. Domestic Postal Card Regulations 1874 to 1885, UPSS (2010). Undersander, Dan, Ed.; U.S. 19th Century Stamped Envelopes and Wrappers; UPSS (2012). Undersander, Dan, Ed.; Catalog of the 20th and 21st Century Stamped Envelopes and Wrappers of the United States (2011). ISBN 978-0-9800112-8-9
The American Card Catalog Jefferson R. Burdick (1900–1963) was an American electrician and a collector of printed ephemera , including postcards, posters, cigar bands, and other types of printed materials dating from the mid-nineteenth century to the early 1960s.
EXAMPLE: Steve Nash card 2004 (back of card): On the front of this card is an authentic piece of a jersey WORN by Steve Nash as a member of the Dallas Mavericks in an NBA game. EXAMPLE: Jermaine O'Neal card 2006 Exquisite (back of card)" On the front of this is a piece of memorabilia that has been certified to us as having been USED in an NBA game.
The first wave of gold shipments was made semi-weekly between January 11 and June 17, 1937, and overseen by the United States Post Office Department. [7] [8] The gold was transported from the New York Assay Office and the Philadelphia Mint onto trains using postal trucks and municipal police escorts. [8]