I've recently been able to close a loop concerning the sale of Bowman Gum to Topps in early 1956. When I was researching the Modern Hobb...

Well cowpokes, it looks like the Obak mailer described here last time out was a bust, at least as far as J. Warren Bowman is concerned. Fai...

Happy New Year kids!  We are roaring into 2013 with a  look back over one hundred years ago, to about 1910.  And in a bit of a twist, it...