Editor’s Notes (April 2020)

Posted on April 4, 2020 by Pre-War Cards

Each month, content gets updated on the Pre-War Cards site. However, while you see the regular articles that are posted, plenty of stuff is always being added behind the scenes. Much of this has to do with the updating of set descriptions and checklists in the database and each month, I’ll be posting to alert you to stuff that has been added or updated from the previous month.

Here are the items added/updated from the past month.

Some months are just kind of … hectic. Last month was apparently so busy that I didn’t get to the monthly editor’s notes. So with that said, here’s a couple months’ worth of updates of happenings around the site.

Obviously, the big news around the world is the devastation of the Coronavirus. While there are much bigger things to worry about, we’re seeing all kinds of cancellations and postponements of most, if not all, card shows. Some sites that ship cards out, like COMC, have halted shipments temporarily. And grading has also been put on hold by both PSA and Beckett.

I don’t mention too many sales of cards from auctions in this space but a notable one took place in February as the only known autographed Ty Cobb T206 green background card sold for $144,000.

In terms of new discoveries, I also wrote about a rare cricket trade card (pictured here) that was added to a checklist cataloged to show only a single baseball card. Essentially, it was believed that the baseball card was only a standalone card. However, this cricket card is clearly from the same set, leading us to wonder if more can be in the set.

Finally, I’m often asked how I got into collecting pre-war cards. I now have a de facto answer, which is basically to send everyone to this link. This article sums up my collecting time from breaking into the hobby all the way up till now. If you like boring, wordy articles about meaningless life events, this article is for you.