Cards On Card History?

Its not uncommon to open a pack of cards in today’s market and see significant people in history that have nothing to do with sports at all.  Hell, Topps created a whole product dedicated to historical figures with their 2009 American Heritage product.  Products like that are pretty interesting especially if your a history buff, but there is something lacking in all of these products and thats cards on the history of the card industry.  It just makes sense that they should include cards like this.  If it weren’t for the people responsible for creating the industry, trading cards wouldn’t exist in the first place.  American Card Catalog author Jefferson Burdick, T206 photographer Carl Horner, and the man credited for thinking of the idea to place cards into packs of cigarettes, James Buchanan Duke, all should have their own cards.  If manufacturers really do their research, maybe they could make a few cut signatures of them too.  So many things have been done over and over in the hobby, and I think this would be an interesting way to go.  I’m not saying create a whole product based on these pioneers, but maybe throw some cards of them in Allen & Ginter or SP Legendary Cuts.

 

Check out this photo.  Its the actual burial spot of James Buchanan Duke.  Who knew those pieces of cardboard would be so collectible?

 

Duke’s signature on a stock certificate.  I could see this in a card.

One Heck of a Trade

Over at Dinged Corners, there is a post entitled “What Would You Trade for an Illinois Senate seat?”  If I had a senate seat and wanted to try an trade, it would take a lot of cards and/or memorabilia.  They would need to find a T206 Honus Wagner graded a BGS Pristine 10 for me to get rid of something like that.  I would also settle for an entire sealed case of 1952 Topps baseball cards or maybe perhaps a few relics from the Baseball Hall of Fame.  What would you trade for a senate seat?  By the way, does anyone else think Gov. Blagojevich looks like a Fisher Price Little Person? (Especially the hair).