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Posted By: T206Collector

First of all, there are fewer and fewer people around that remember the 1930's from their childhood, thus you are going to attract people who didn't live through it. When you put all of those people into the market, why would someone stop at the 1930's when they can easily go back to 1909 with T206? I began my vintage collecting with Goudey -- and still have the Goudey Grove I picked up in 1989 when I was 16. But with the advent of eBay and proliferation of T206 cards, it was hard to justify spending money on 1930's cards when I could just as easily put together quite a collection of 1909 cards.

I think the same will happen with 1940's, 50's, 60's cards as the collectors of those issues with memories of their childhood fade away. In 20-30 years from now, why would you collect 1950's Topps cards when you can still easily acquire T206 cards?

This assumes, of course, that older is always better. But a lot of collectors think that way. I think you'd see more interest in 1800's cards if there were more of them around. But the availability of T206 keeps the collectors coming back for more on a day-to-day basis.