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Jeff Lowe From what Ive found in the early years of collectibles , people who collected things collected EVERYTHING . From cigar labels , to matchbooks to postcards . They liked to look at them and kept them . Then along came the depression and people saved every little scrap of everything along with the used bacon grease .
There may have been some set collectors in the early history of baseball and tobacco cards but I believe the majority or people were just smoking or chewing their favorite tobacco and staching away their premiums .