maxwedgechar
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Now that I am Max Wedgeless I’ve decided to work on some of my hobbies. In 1966, my Scout Troop, before curbside recycling, would collect newspapers, monthly, as a troop competition and the local scrap yard would leave us a dumpster. About 1 yard high of papers was worth 100 pounds. The Scout with highest total got a prize. We accepted near any paper. If there was anything interesting I would swap it out against my total. I got Kennedy Assassination stuff, space program, car magazines, it’s where I found out about Maxes and Hemis and, wait for it…… National Geographics from the ‘Teens and the Twenties. Then in 1981 the guy I was working for asked me if I wanted his father’s collection. SURE! His father’s collection was near complete from 1910 to 1960 and his oldest was the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake issue!
I would go to flea markets and antique shops looking for Pre-1910 issues. I would occasionally find one or two and then came eBay! I started buying what I could afford. Then I came up against something that I finally found out about. Issues from about 1906 on are less expensive than 1905 back. Sometime in 1905 they started publishing pictures of bare breasted native women and the membership took off exponentially! Oh, but I read it for the articles!
I met a guy through eBay who I’ve been buying from monthly for about 5 years. He is a retired high end National Geographic dealer. Right now I am to the point where I have January 1904 on to about 2017 when my late wife’s membership ran out and my oldest is 1893. He has offered to sell me everything I need including issue number one either in a bound volume by year or individual issues so I would only need four issues to complete the collection. And yes, for a whole lot of money!
Does anybody else have the National Geographic Magazine Madness like I do? And I also have my 1961 Baseball card collection where I only need 10 out of about 600!
I would go to flea markets and antique shops looking for Pre-1910 issues. I would occasionally find one or two and then came eBay! I started buying what I could afford. Then I came up against something that I finally found out about. Issues from about 1906 on are less expensive than 1905 back. Sometime in 1905 they started publishing pictures of bare breasted native women and the membership took off exponentially! Oh, but I read it for the articles!
I met a guy through eBay who I’ve been buying from monthly for about 5 years. He is a retired high end National Geographic dealer. Right now I am to the point where I have January 1904 on to about 2017 when my late wife’s membership ran out and my oldest is 1893. He has offered to sell me everything I need including issue number one either in a bound volume by year or individual issues so I would only need four issues to complete the collection. And yes, for a whole lot of money!
Does anybody else have the National Geographic Magazine Madness like I do? And I also have my 1961 Baseball card collection where I only need 10 out of about 600!
