Here's one of my favorite signed T206 cards from the Morey collection (Crawford -- who was also in Ritter's book), as well as a scan of the letter from Ritter to Morey.
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Morey, Ritter & the Glory of Their Times
I just received a scan of a terrific letter from Larry Ritter to autograph legend Jeff Morey, essentially crediting Morey for helping him locate some players. I always had a theory that Ritter's book should be credited for getting the names of pre-war players into the minds of autograph seekers in the 1960s and 1970s. It is amazing to see that the autograph seekers themselves had a hand in Ritter's work.
Here's one of my favorite signed T206 cards from the Morey collection (Crawford -- who was also in Ritter's book), as well as a scan of the letter from Ritter to Morey.
Here's one of my favorite signed T206 cards from the Morey collection (Crawford -- who was also in Ritter's book), as well as a scan of the letter from Ritter to Morey.
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The vast majority of all of those who ever collected even one autograph does not know the name JEFFREY W. MOREY nor would they ever have any idea whatsoever as to what he has done and contributed to this great aspect of sports collecting over the entire span of his lifetime, having been one who arranged his first signature after the age of 5 and it is now 63 years later without any interruption ...
ReplyDeleteI, too, am exactly the same type of person who never let a person pass me by without a serious signature request ...
However, it is most unfortunate that the art of real penmanship is and has become lost over these last 25 / 30 years, although it is great to see you attempting to find, research and gather together many superb examples of these T206 signed cards, something even I did not obtain back in the day even though a goodly amount of these tobacco cards were in the hands of others I knew, along with older brothers of my school friends, which could have been had in some form of medium level trade or low dollar amount sale before the 1970s ...
You are to be highly commended for all this great work and much continuing success to you in your ongoing search for more of these true classics of the real Greats of the Game ...
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