It’s interesting to see what vintage cards have been in fashion at various times. By the 1970s, when the hobby really started growing in popularity, the hot things were 1930s gum cards (Goudeys, etc.) and 1950s regionals, which were much more expensive in relative terms than they had been in Burdick’s generation (or than they are today). In the 1980s, of course, postwar cards, epitomized by the 1952 Topps Mantle, were the hot cards to have, whereas in the 1970s and earlier they had barely been worth mentioning, and hadn’t been considered “vintage” at all.
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