Looking back at my records, my first prewar cards were a bunch of 1933 Goudey's which I picked up at the same time I was picking other modern 80s cards from my youth. I purchased these raw, and they were described by their sellers as VG-EX to NM and ended up grading poor to fair when I sent them into SGC. You can say that was my baptism as a newbie collector, and one of the reasons I am strongly TPG now.
For vintage, when I was a kid, my older cousin gave me his collection of beater 1973-75 cards which I always liked. I remember I had reprints of T206 Wagner and Magie which I looked at with reverance, but I never thought about collecting prewar then. It's like many people have said. A $6 card was a lot of money back then. I didn't even think about being able to afford really old cards. Just picking up a few 87 wax packs was enough for me back then.
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