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Posted By: David McDonald

My first vintage card was a 1956 Topps Del Ennis. I acquired it and four other forgotten cards for a nickel in 1956. (They even threw in a piece of gum). I was six years old and I was hooked. The card had not attained the distinction of vintage yet although the gum could have been. Awful stuff, that gum. My first vintage pre-war card was a 1933 Goudey Dizzy Dean I purchased around 1983 from a card shop in Menlo Park, California. Ho! Did I get ripped off on that card! Two hundred bucks I paid but I thought I'd never see another one and I loved Ol' Diz from the Game of the Week.

The Dean resides next to my shaving kit in my manly man bathroom. The Ennis, alas, resides in some unknown landfill far away. (The image is taken from a card I just BIN'ed).