Single Cards for Multiple Collections?

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Posted By: Brad Green

I am a player collector (although I have considered at times putting together a vintage set or two). I am curious about people who have more than one collecting focus (sets, players, HOF players or players from particular teams, for example). My question is this: Suppose a single card falls into two of your collecting categories. Do you get two examples of that card or do you use one example for both collections? To make my question clearer, I'll use an example. Suppose you collect Lefty Grove cards and are trying to complete a 1933 DeLong set. Do you get one 1933 DeLong Grove card and say it belongs in both your Grove collection and your 1933 DeLong set, or do you get two 1933 DeLong Grove cards and put one in each collection?

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Posted By: Brian Lindholme

Brad, this question is not that simple...I think you should buy THREE in case you want to sell one later as a dupe !!

Reminds me of a fellow collector who decided that he could save 3 bucks a day by not buying a cappucino each morning and he could put that money right back into his card collecting budget. When he solicited for advice, one of the classic answers came back ...

Start buying TWO coffees every day, then you can quit them and save 6 bucks a day, thereby saving twice as much card money !!!


Seriously, I think the question is best answered by HOW you store your sets. If you have them in binders or boxes either numerically or alphabetically then you might have a HOLE in your set because you stored your favorite player with his other issues. So either buy two or scan/print one to put in the empty slot.

Happy Collecting
Brian L
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Posted By: Frank Evanov

Personally, I get one card and use it for multiple sets. This allows me to get a better card for my sets. If I had to buy 2 or 3 of the same card, I would be forced to buy lower condition cards.

Frank

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Posted By: Kevin Cummings

I'm sure there are people out there with the means to collect multiple cards of the same player so they can say they have truly unique and complete sets. I sure as heck am not one of them, so if I was looking to complete multiple sets, one card would have to do double (or triple) duty.

If you are thinking of doing a Hall of Fame set and an Old Judge set, good luck on the two McPhees!

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Posted By: Al Crisafulli

I am working on a HOF set as well as a few other sets.

If I have a card in one set, I do not double-count it in my HOF set. The nature of my HOF set is that it's a type card set, where I'm trying to get at least one card of every HOFer using as many different types as possible. Based on this, I'd really like to keep the cards separate.

The only exception I have is with T205. I'm working on a T205 set, but I really don't have enough of the set complete for it to count for anything yet. Once I get it around 50%, I'll pull the two or three T205s out of my HOF set and put them back with my T205s.

I suspect you'll get a hundred different answers to this, since we're all wackos.

-Al

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Posted By: Gilbert Maines

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