Turning the WABAC machine to 1960 today kids, a year when Topps faced competition from a number of competitors in the baseball card market. ...

Hof on the heels of our last adventure , I thought I would take a look at two more subjects that spanned 15 years between Topps sets. While ...

As I was preparing the previous post here at the ol' Archives, concerning the copying of certain 19th Century artwork by Topps , particu...

Ahoy!  Piracy has been a scourge of the seas for almost as long as there have been sailing ships. Today we think of it in two ways: the trad...

This will be a final look at the 1953 American Card Catalog's advertising section, previously discussed here and here . Today we are t...

As promised in our last adventure , here are a few more ads from the 1953 American Card Catalog , featuring some very prominent collectors o...

Most, if not all, vintage collectors have run across the American Card Catalog as they assemble sets and compile wantlists.  Jefferson Bu...