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The Louisiana find

6/23/2014

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The main purpose of this site is to document cards associated with Louisiana. With that in mind, I thought it would only be fitting to include some information about the "Louisiana Find". 

In August of 2010 a poster with the handle GeorgeD made a post on the Full Count Forum that caught the attention of collectors everywhere:

"I have a Louis Lowdermilk Red Cross as well as 6 other Red Cross brown background cards."

Lowdermilk is already the rarest card in the T207 set, but to find one with a scarce Red Cross back would seem almost impossible. Of course everyone wanted to see scans and George was able to produce them. George went on to explain that he was 81 years old and from Baton Rouge, LA. He said that the cards had belonged to his uncle who died in 1936. George found the cards in his grandmother's attic around 1940 and later came across them in his mother's attic after she died in 1992.

There were 94 cards in the "Louisiana Find" that included: forty-six T207, all rare cards in the set, including eight with Red Cross backs; thirty T215-1 Red Cross; four T215-2 Red Cross; eleven T213-2 Coupon; and three E105 Mello Mints.

Here is one of the original scans from the Full Count Forum thread:
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Recently I was able to pick up the T213 Heinie Wagner shown in the middle of the scan above. Before these cards were auctioned off by Robert Edward Auctions in 2011 they were sent off to SGC for grading. The Heinie Wagner card now resides in an SGC 20 holder with an inscription on the flip marking it as part of the "Louisiana Find".
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June 21, 2014 - Exciting Acquisition!

6/21/2014

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This is an exciting day for me. I was able to pick up a W573 with a Cafe' Du Monde ad back. As of this time there are only 3 known Cafe' Du Monde cards. I was able to get Leon to give me this card for his very special "I don't want to sell" price. It was definitely more than I would have liked to give for this card but it might have also been my only opportunity to ever acquire one of these. I plan on sending it off to SGC to get encapsulated. This one will NEVER leave my collection.
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june 20, 2014 - d327 schalk type 1

6/20/2014

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I received a message from Rick McQuillan (Net54) yesterday informing me that he had a D327 Ray Schalk type 1 in his collection. To the best of my knowledge, this card was previously unlisted in any checklists. I updated the checklist to include this new find.

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June 03, 2014

6/3/2014

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Thanks go out to all who provided source material for this site. I spent many hours searching through threads on Net54baseball.com and found a ton of important information regarding Louisiana "type" cards. I am especially grateful to Ted Z. for his checklist threads. One thing I've learned about some of these Louisiana issues is that checklists are hard to find and often times conflict with one another. Ted Z. has made a great effort in compiling known cards for many of these sets. 

I also spent many hours searching the web for articles about the companies that manufactured and distributed these little pieces of cardboard a century ago. Most of them have been bought, sold, or have become defunct in the years since they inserted these cards into their products. I have done my best to sift through the old writings and compile all of the relevant data.

Thanks to Laurel Dorrance for lending me some valuable information regarding the history of L. Frank & Co.

It is my intention to "grow" this website as new information becomes available. As recent as late 2013 there were cards discovered that were previously unknown to collectors so there is always a chance that more discoveries will be made in the future. 

If you have any information that you feel would be beneficial to this site please feel free to use the contact tab to get in touch with me.


Thanks,
Zach
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6/3/2014

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