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Posted By: <b>James Gallo</b><p>Well my birthday just passed and it got me thinking that I am probably one of the youngest people on this board at a yound 29 years.<br /><br />I have been into the Cracker Jacks for years but about 6 months ago went hard core into the set as well as other pre war stuff.<br /><br />Anyone younger?<br /><br />James Gallo<br /><br />Looking for 1915 Cracker Jacks and 1909-11 American Caramel E90-1.<br /><br />edited spelling in title to make more clear..ed<br /><br />

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Posted By: <b>Joe Jones</b><p>I am 25 and have always been into prewar but just started heavily collecting one year ago.

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Posted By: <b>Cobby33</b><p>Physically, 36.<br />Started with pre-War about a year ago. Have been collecting in general for about 25 years.

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Posted By: <b>steve yawitz</b><p>32 and about 5 years, though most of that time as a pre-war collector I was focused strictly on hockey. Over the last 18 months or so I've definitely shifted most of my hobby energy and dollars to baseball.

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Posted By: <b>Erick Lewin</b><p>I'm only 23, turning 24 in August. Been collecting cards since i was about 7 or 8. Got my first pre war cards from my great grandpa when i was about 12 or 13 i think. I got a 1915 Connie Mack Cracker Jack and about 16 D381 Fleischmann's before i inherited the rest of his collection almost 2 years ago. Once i got the rest of those cards, i've really been focusing almost exclusively on 1910's-1930's stuff, but ocasionally still buy a newer card.<br />Probably going to start selling some of my other newer cards on ebay that i don't like anymore once i get around to it and have the time in order to have more money for the old stuff.

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Posted By: <b>Paul</b><p>44 years old, & have been collecting pre war for 8 years. I went to Los Arcos mall in Scottsdale AZ, & bought a few T206's at a small card show back in 1998. I couldn't believe how much more interesting they were than the shiny cards.

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Posted By: <b>jay behrens</b><p>43 going on 13. Bought my first pre-ww2 card in 1980. Took a break from 1992-2002 and have been going strong ever since then. This time around, I strictly collect pre-ww2.<br /><br />Jay<br><br>Growing old is not optional, growing up is.

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Posted By: <b>John Barnes</b><p>I'm 18, but I'm more of a lurker/learner than a pre-war collector. I only have a handful of pre-war cards. <br /><br />John

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Posted By: <b>Jeff P</b><p><i> Well my birthday just passed and it got me thinking that I am probably one of the youngest people on this board at a yound 29 years.<br /><br />I have been into the Cracker Jacks for years but about 6 months ago went hard core into the set as well as other pre war stuff.<br /><br />Anyone younger?<br /><br />James Gallo<br /><br />Looking for 1915 Cracker Jacks and 1909-11 American Caramel E90- </i><br /><br />I'm also 29 and have been really collecting pre-war for about a year, although I did have some HOF t206's long before that. Are you on the '15 CJ Registry? That's my 2nd favorite set!<br /><br />Jeff

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Posted By: <b>Joe_G.</b><p>33 here, the board has a pretty good mix with 20 somethings & 30 somethings well represented. Vintage card collecting has a strong hold on all ages . . . a good sign.<br /><br />Oh, and I started collecting 19th century at the age of 15.<br /><br />Best Regards,<br />Joe Gonsowski

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Posted By: <b>cn</b><p> I am 41 and was lucky enough to have worked for Paul Galagher and also set up at the shows at the Golden Gate Motel in Brooklyn which at the time showcased everything. So I started in pre- war about 1978. I know Larry Gladstone reads this board and I remember him as one of the the younger dealers 25 years ago and know how he was was very helpful to a teenage collector.

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Posted By: <b>Brian</b><p>I am 22 and i have been collecting my entire life. i was like 3 years old when I got my first card. I love baseball and love vintage baseball cards and memorabilia. I love to collect anything pre war, especially rare items. I have had Boston Garters to T206's in my collection and I just love the thrill of collecting in general.

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Posted By: <b>V117Collector</b><p>I'm 29, I've been collecting pre-war cards 5years now, before that I use to collect 59Topps on and off for 5years. I have know interest in post-war cards any more and I can't believe I ever did!

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Posted By: <b>anthony</b><p>well, i was hoping i was one of the younger ones but my 30-freakin'-8 (and 2 weeks) is obviously not...how 'bout some of you older guys checkin' in ??? <br /><br />i've been pre-war for about 3 years at the most

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Posted By: <b>Paul</b><p>Yikes, I'm the oldest so far at 44. (45 next month)

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Posted By: <b>ScottIngold</b><p>36 and have collected since 1980. Boy i thought i was a young guy....Guess not.

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Posted By: <b>John S</b><p>I am 34 and have been collecting since 1978 (1978 Topps Baseball which I still have). I started collecting vintage in 1981 when I purchased a few cards at a local show. I got real heavy into pre-war in the early 1990's which was about five years too late by my estimation. I guess it is all relative however; how many of you remember passing over the $30 and $40 Tip Tops in Mike Wheat's catalog in the mid to late 90's? I wonder what we are overlooking now?

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Posted By: <b>Br uce Dorskind</b><p>I will soon turn 54.<br /><br />Whilst I collected cards as a young boy, I am entered the hobby in 1977.<br /><br />My focus has always been to collect the rarest cards in stellar condition.<br /><br />Lond before cards were graded, I focused on near-mint to mint type cards.<br /><br />Within two years of entering the hobby, I owend 10 top condition George<br />Miller cards, a dozen Ramys (from Wharton Tigar) a Four Base Hit<br />Just So, and Boston Garters. (Still own 6 early color cards)<br /><br /><br />It was clear that cards were a commodity, but the opportunity to grow<br />a great collection by fousing on the more obscure issues- and only those<br />in superior condition would be an apporpriate investment in times<br />and resources.<br /><br />Along the way I obtained many cards from Buck Barker, Lionel Carter, George Lyons,<br />Cliff Lambert, Larry Kelley, Joe Michaelowitz, Jim Horne, Lew Neman Tom Coller and <br /> two young teenage dealers,, Bill Masto and Rob Lifson.<br /><br />I invested thousands in aquiring books and rare manuscripts along with<br />thousands of copies of early hobby publicaions and newspapers.<br /><br />Sadly, a personal incident forced me to sell 50% of my type collection<br />through REA in 2004- but i have kept the very best pieces and have since<br />obtained 44 different type cards - many of obscure type cards in the highest known<br />SGC or PSA grade.(only one in 5 - but highest known, two in six, ten in seven and 30 in 8<br />and one in 9.<br /><br />Whilst some may take pleaure in creases, chips and holes. my view is<br />Masters never go out of style. One rarely go wrong by focusing<br />exclusively on the very best .(in any thing one accumulates)<br /><br />Anyone who tells you otherwise only need trace the performance of<br />high grade super rare materila and compare it with their low grade<br />cards. The numbers speak for the themseleves.<br /><br />Bruce Dorskind <br />America's Toughest Want List<br />

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Posted By: <b>Martin Neal</b><p> I am 52. Although I collected cards and coins as a kid, the coin collection was the only thing that survived. I did purchase over a hundred t206s back in the mid eighties (I didn't really know what I was buying). In 2002 I discovered prewar on Ebay. As I never had time to go to shows (raising 5 children) or had friends who collected, Ebay was a great source of information and material.

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Posted By: <b>Steve M.</b><p>I guess I'm the old man so far at 63.<br /><br />I've been collecting since 1980 or so having run across some 59 Topps cards that brought back memories of my teenage years. I quickly built the set and was doing other post-war sets as well. I built both 53 Bowman sets, the color were real nice, and then I found T206....... <br /><br />I was selling some dup 53's in SCD (remember it?) and this guy from Virginia calls me and asks if I'm interested in T206 to trade. I didn't really know the issue but had seen them for sale so I said "why not". He sends me a couple and we make a trade. He then says he has more and will send them to me to see if we can do further trades. Well, in about a week this big package arrives and there is this binder with over 800 T206 cards. Yes, 800!! I was floored! Here this guy just sent the cards on trust that we would make some deal. Well we did...he got my 53 Bowman color set in return.<br /><br />That philosophy of trust has been with me throughout the years and I'm happy to say continues to this day.

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Posted By: <b>ralph</b><p>Im getting close to the big 50... anybody else out there looking to trade me 800 T206 cards for my 53B set !

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Posted By: <b>Rob NYC</b><p>I am 38. I started collecting prewar in the spring of 2005. I used to be a "chase card" hunter from 1991 to 1999, but it sucked the big one doing that after a while. Everything looked the same. Everything cost the same. All flash, no substance. After a 5-year hiatus/sabbatical from collecting, I looked at my 1977 world series ticket and remembered what it was actually all about. And that drove me deeper into older stuff until I hit the tobacco cards. Quite affordable, hence my new love for the hobby.<br /><br />From flashy to classy. And never looked back.

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Posted By: <b>Donald Johnson</b><p>I'm 35 and started back in '93. First pre-war card I picked up was a T206 Miller Huggins portrait; at that time, I had no clue that he was even a Hofer! After a several year hiatus from card collecting, my next two pre-war pick-ups were T206 portraits of Walter Johnson (EPDG back) and Nap Lajoie (again didn't really know anything about them at the time) and its been uphill ever since <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14> .

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Posted By: <b>leon</b><p>I'm 44 and have been collecting for close to 10 years. It's all Brockelman's fault so if anyone has an issue with me please blame him.....

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Posted By: <b>David Seaborn</b><p>I'm 35 and I'm surprised to see so many people my age on the board. I guess I had a misconception that most vintage collectors were a little older. This is great great question and it's been interesting to put ages with names - some of which I was way off on in my mind.<br /><br />I started collecting vintage cards in 1985. The first card I bought was a T206 Fritz SL card. Since then I've never looked back (or I guess you could say that cardwise I've always looked back and never forward).

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Posted By: <b>Jordan And Company</b><p>im 11 and by far the youngest here im not good in vintage collecting but i have topps 56 Rance Pless card

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Posted By: <b>Joe D.</b><p>I'm 35...<br /><br />collected T206s about 20 years or so ago (all with the Polar Bear back)... and sort of snubbed any other pre-war card. Stopped collecting and just got back into it this year.<br /><br />Now, I am sort of snubbing the t206 (for now anyway) - and am going after all of the other stuff. I really don't know what I want or what I am after (it seems to change every week) -- which I guess makes it a fun stage in my collection.<br /><br />I think I got back into collecting because my son is in little league, and that old baseball fever came back for me.<br /><br /><br /><br />

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Posted By: <b>Cat</b><p>43 y.o. and 7 years into vintage.<br /><br />Started collecting the shiny cards in 1967. I had an older brother and my mom or grandma would pick up two packs of cards during every trip to town (I lived in the country)...one pack for my brother and one for me.

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Posted By: <b>Bill K@sel</b><p>I'm 33 next month. Been collecting pre-war for about four years now. Have about a hundred thousand shiny, and 80's cards. Anybody want to trade me a VG/EX Green Cobb portrait for the lot? <img src="/images/wink.gif" height=14 width=14><br /><br />I'm trying to finish up the T206 HOF portrait collection minus the big two, and then plan on moving into candy type cards, and horizontal poses.<br /><br />I'm suprised to see so many other collectors in the Gen X group.<br><br>My personal collection - <a href="http://s47.photobucket.com/albums/f176/fkm_bky/" target="_new" rel="nofollow">http://s47.photobucket.com/albums/f176/fkm_bky/</a>

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Posted By: <b>Paul Stratton</b><p>I'm 35 and I've been collecting pre-war since 1980. Got started when the "old guy" who owned the local shop gave me a bunch of t206's. It's been a disease ever since.

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Posted By: <b>Anonymous</b><p>24, got into pre-war about 10 months ago after visiting a t206 booth at a local show. I knew I had to start collecting them after that. <br /><br />I also collect pre-war boxing (5 months) and modern era auto rcs (10 years). <br /><br />

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Posted By: <b>Al C.risafulli</b><p>I'm 36. Got my first pack of cards in 1976, bought my first prewar cards in 1979 or 80, as we always were looking for "oldies", and the older the oldie, the better.<br /><br />My prewar interests were always restricted to T206 until just a couple of years ago when I started branching out, buying all sorts of stuff. To gain a little focus, I started focusing on a HOF set and also on a couple of prewar sets from years the Yankees won the Series. I'm also slowly slogging through a T205 set.<br /><br />I recently started a website to show parts of my collection, which was motivated by many of you here. You can see it at www.swingbattaswing.com.<br /><br />-Al

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Posted By: <b>Mike</b><p>I am 52, and started gathering pre war items in 1989.<br /><br />

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Posted By: <b>Tim James</b><p>I'm 41,my first vintage card was T206 Marquard portrait.Been hooked ever since.I picked it up at an antique show at the age of 13.

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Posted By: <b>ScottIngold</b><p>Ted ???? Where are you ? This thread is made for you.<br />Lets hear from a real old timer.

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Posted By: <b>Lyle</b><p>Just turned 47...but feel like I'm about 16 when I'm collecting and discussing my vintage cards .I've been collecting for about three years after many years of my "shiny stuff" period . This site has been a big influence in keeping my enthusiasm high .<img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14>

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Posted By: <b>Chris Mc</b><p>39, prewar cards since 2002.Just like collecting stamps, after 1970 there is too much to try and collect, so I stick to prewar cards.

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Posted By: <b>T206Collector</b><p>I turned 33 last week. I've been collecting baseball cards since 1987, bought my 1933 Goudey Lefty Grove in 1989 and bought my first T206 cards (Matty White Portrait and Bender Portrait) in 1997. I gave up the glossy crap for good after 1998 to concetrate all of my available resources on putting together the T206 set, which I accomplish last year (minus Wagner, Plank, Magie and Doyle). <br /><br />I thought I was one of the younger ones, but looks like I'm about average.

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Posted By: <b>David McDonald</b><p>Fifty-six years old. Aging sucks but it can't be helped. Was an avid Topps collector in the fifties (Mom tossed 'em) but it took the Gretsky Wagner publicity decades later to bring me the knowledge that there were other wonderful ancient cards out there. Started collecting vintage cards around five years ago. Began with the the '57 Topps set, got hooked, collected '33 and '34 Goudey sets and have been working backward through time ever since. Am currently ensconced in the 1910's, cherry picking T202's, T205's and those lovely T-3's. All a card has to have is reasonable eye-appeal and some spirit; I don't give a rat's derriere about high grade investments. When I am gone various relatives and buddies will get my cards and it makes me happy just thinking about it.

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Posted By: <b>Ricky Y</b><p>I'm 46. Started as a kid collecting Topps in the early 70's..as a teen got hooked on vintage stuff...collected some T cards, E cards and the Goudey's...lost interest and started to creep back in the last few years and am now focusing on getting type sets and finishing up my Goudey set.<br /><br />Ricky

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Posted By: <b>Bob</b><p>Alao 56 years old. Opened a pack of Topps cards in 1958 for the first time. Although aging does suck, I feel sorry for you guys who never knew what it was like to debate between buying a 5 cent pack of cards and getting 6 cards and a stick of gum or 5 penny packs and getting 5 cards but 5 sticks of gum. I dropped out of the hobby when I was 13 and discovering girls, that sports was serious and all other pleasant diversions but got back in in 1981, lukewarm at first and then seriously in about 1990.<br />"Youth is wasted on the young" is a favorite expression I've heard along the way, besides you fellas have no idea how great the 60's were even with the spectre of Vietnam hanging over our heads. The music was better, the girls were prettier, the game was better, well what else would you expect from a guy my age <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14><br />tbob

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Posted By: <b>Anonymous</b><p>I'm two years shy of a 5 handle. I chased vintage cards in my youth and went to many early shows in southern California in the late 1960s and early 1970s. My 15 minutes of fame was used up when I was the featured collector in SCD #4 in 1973.<br />It's all downhill after that. Hiatus lasted until the end of college, back at it ever since. I never went for the shiny stuff, but I am developing a weakness for slabs (true confession).

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Posted By: <b>Patrick McMenemy</b><p>I'll be 46 in a few weeks. <br /><br />I'm not sure of which year I started collecting pre-war cards exactly since many of my early purchases have been sold, and the receipts tossed. Checking through my records, however, it looks like 1992 is when I started putting together my current collection of 7 catchers. So I have had the sickness for at least 14 years. <br /><br />Patrick

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Posted By: <b>T. Engle</b><p><br />I am 14 years old. I started out collecting the shiny stuff, by buying boxes and blowing my allowance for the month. At some point I just knew I had to stop buying wax, so I started to lean towards vintage about two years ago. <br /><br />What really got me hooked was about a year ago when I was searching Ebay late at night. A guy was selling 100 Goudeys that he said belonged to his dad. He only had one picture and it was of all them sprawled out, so I really couldn’t get a good look at them. All he said was that his dad cut off all the bottoms so they would fit into a cigar box he carried around. Although they were trimmed, I thought I couldn't go wrong at a buck a piece considering there was a Ruth in the mix. I asked my dad, if I could buy them with my own money and he agreed since I worked hard for the money and could spend it on what I wanted. Once they came, I held onto them for about a month learning tons about 1933 Goudeys. I attended a show and then sold them all for $300.<br /><br />That was my first big deal I had ever made and it felt great as I walked out with $200 extra bucks. I am know collecting T205's with my dad and its a blast.<br /><br /><br />

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Posted By: <b>E, Daniel</b><p>37. Only been in the US of A since 2000, and discovered ebay and sportscards soon after. Bought a 93' SP Jeter, then another, discovered the whole graded thing and realized I had just so much to learn. <br />The more I learnt, the more I learned, the further back in history I went - until vintage came to mean somthing more to me than my grandmothers musty furniture and horn-rimmed glasses.<br />Boy these cards are cool.

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Posted By: <b>JimB</b><p>I'm 38. Bought my first pack in 1975. I discovered card shows and bought my first "old" card (1960 Yogi Berra) in 1979. Bought a T206 Cobb and T206 Lajoie in 1980. Collected until about 1984, when I got interested in other things. Got back into collecting in 1994 and it has been virtually all Pre WWII (mostly pre WWI) ever since.<br />JimB

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Posted By: <b>RayB</b><p>It is very refreshing to me to see so many 20 something, 30 something, and 40 something pre-war collectors!<br />This is the future of our hobby, right here.<br /><br />I am 47 and been a baseball card collector all my life. I love this hobby.<br />My concentration has drifed toward pre-war T-206 and Exhibits over the last few years exclusively.<br />I have been slowly narrowing my collection to help feed my humble pre-war habit.<br />I love all the T-206 talk around here especially.<br />Stay with it guys.<br /><br />RayB

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Posted By: <b>warshawlaw</b><p>My driver's license says I'm 41 but I'm 28 (to paraphrase Frank Sinatra). <br /><br />Been into prewar and other cards since I was a kid.

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Posted By: <b>dan mckee</b><p>I am 44 and have been collecting pre-war for 37 years. Dan

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Posted By: <b>Jay</b><p>I'm going to be 56 this year. I started collecting as a kid (those weren't vintage then but they are close now), took the obligatory 25 year break for sex, drugs and rock and roll, and then started up again in the late 1980s after our kids were born. I have been going pretty steady ever since.

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Posted By: <b>Brian McQueen</b><p><br />Nice idea for a thread, I've sort of wondered about the ages of various board members myself. I'm 29 and am kinda surprised to read that there are a few people the exact same age as me that have already posted in this thread. I'm still fairly new to the hobby and have actually only been involved in Prewar collecting for 2-3 years. Before that, I mainly collected 50s and 60s Topps cards. I'm still learning new stuff all the time as well, largely due to our forum here.

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Posted By: <b>Joann</b><p>46. Been collecting vintage for maybe 6 or 7 years. I stopped completely a few years ago when I started school and basically got hit by that tidal wave - everything except work and school stopped. <br /><br />I finally got a chance to catch my breath around November 05 and started checking out ebay and this board again. I was mildly shocked at what had happened to prices, and the value of a few of my cards after a few years of not paying attention. It's been fun to pick up steam again.<br /><br />Joann

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Posted By: <b>Ray Piskadlo</b><p>Just turned 30... purchased my first vintage card, a T206 common, the weekend of the big East Coast blackout in 2003. 150 T206 later, along with a few type cards, I'm still going strong!

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Posted By: <b>Gilbert Maines</b><p>I am 61. Age, maybe IQ, but not waist size.<br />Ive been interested in pre-war players for as long as Ive been interested in baseball. I got heavily involved in researching cards and baseball history when I first found out that old cards could be purchased (around the late '70s), but didn't actually buy my first cards (OJs) until the early 80s. From that time until a few years ago I only got new cards when I had extra money, and with putting kids through school, that was almost never. Now I have a monthly card budget from which I buy approximately the same value of cards each year. I try to primarilly obtain cards from sets which are not popular at the time that I buy them. But it seems that some sets are always popular, and others are never popular.

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Posted By: <b>jP</b><p>31 just turned on 5 de mayo, been collecting cards since early teens but the pre war cards for a little over a year. not putting any sets together at this point maybe in the future. favorite set would be T212 obak, great color awesome backgrounds cool cards to look at.

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Posted By: <b>Andrew Parks</b><p>34<br /><br />Started collecting T205's seven years ago. Then sold them all about four years ago to concentrate on VW Karmann Ghia's. I then sold all of my VW stuff and got back in to vintage cards two and half years ago.

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Posted By: <b>Brian Goldner</b><p>Began collecting in 1968, and acquired my first pre-war card, sometime in 1969. That 1st pre-war card was a T-202, and i still have it. <br /><br />T-206 was an early favorite, and i had a number of them by 1970, when i was ten years old.<br /><br />Today, my pre-war interests are a considerably more widespread, as i collect various other issues, in addition to early tobacco.

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Posted By: <b>Kevin Cummings</b><p>Just turned the double nickel. <br /><br />Hadn't collected at all since I was a kid, but started anew when I had Jim Bouton's company do a baseball card announcement for my son's birth and I stuffed them into packs of 1983 Topps cards to hand out.<br /><br />Started down the prewar path in January of 1995. Just sad I didn't start sooner. Also, sad I wasn't born rich.

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Posted By: <b>Dean H</b><p>Recently turned 37 and have been collecting since 1983. I gravitated towards vintage (pre 70) around 1990 and then started collecting pre war around 1999.

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Posted By: <b>Matt E.</b><p><br /><br />I am 45 years old and have been collecting baseball cards in general just about 5 years now. Quite a bit of busting boxes and packs in 2001 thru 2005. Never did hit get the big score out of the box and became disillusioned.<br /><br />Bought and sold quite a few E121's and Exhibit cards for profit, but never really collected any pre war until I purchased a near set of T205's recently. <br /><br />Now, I am hooked and on a serious mission to complete that set... then get it graded by SGC. Just 5 to go for a master set. <br /><br />Enjoy seeing the monthly pick ups by board members.

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Posted By: <b>Craig H</b><p>I'm a few months short of 29 years' old. I got interested in older cards in 1991 and got interested in the Goudeys about 1993. I bought my first 1938 Goudey in '93 and as of this writing, am two cards short of finishing the set. As I have seen, there are more younger vintage card collectors then when I first began at around 15 years old!<br /><br />Craig

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Posted By: <b>Josh K.</b><p>Im 39. Collected 50s, 60s and 70s as a kid through High School. Gave it up until 2004 when I got lured back into the hobby after purchasing a couple of boxes of the Topps T206 set as well as some 50's HOFers. Found this forum and figured out a real T206 was better than a remake with modern players. My first true vintage card was a T206 Walter Johnson pitching. I now collect almost exclusively pre 1930 cards.

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Posted By: <b>barry arnold</b><p>55<br /><br />got my first 206's,205's,210's,and 203's in 1982.<br />really just sort of dabbled, pretty directionless in the<br />pre-war world for the next couple of decades.<br />finally, made 206's my one and only and am nearing 400<br />treasures---in large part due to the camaraderie and help<br />from this board!!<br />many thanks,<br /><br />herbivore barry<br /><br />p.s. as i've said before, in the 60's i basically collected<br />'clay dalrymples'<br />

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Posted By: <b>ockday</b><p>Started collecting back in 1987 but that was mostly Topps and Bowmans..prewar has only been for about the last 8 years.

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Posted By: <b>Ted Zanidakis</b><p>So far, I am "topps" on the age category. I first collected BB cards in 1947<br />(Homogenized Bond Bread).....1948 Leaf Boxing.....1949 Leaf BB & FB......<br />1949 - 1952 Bowman BB.....1948, 1950 - 52 Bowman FB.....1952 Topps BB.<br /><br />In 1977 I returned to the hobby, having my original collection from my youth.<br />And, in 1979 I started collecting Goodwin Champions (N162), T206's, Diamond<br /> Stars, Goudeys, and Play Balls.<br /><br />T-Rex Ted

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Posted By: <b>Troy</b><p>I am 30 years old and I have been collecting Pre War for 4 years. My main focus is T206 thanks to Topps T206. I have also been a collector since I was 4 years old.

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Posted By: <b>Zach S.</b><p>I'm 26. I've been collecting vintage for about 3 years now. My story is the same as most... started out collecting the shiny crap as a kid and moved on to better things.<br /><br />Zach Smith

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Posted By: <b>andy becker</b><p>i'll be 38 in a few weeks. still looking forward to birthdays <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14> .<br /><br />i've been collecting cards in 1975. first card i purchased from packs was a 1975 gary gentry. <br /><br />i fondly remember buying the neighbor's cards for a penny each. stars were a nickel. and seattle pilots and washing senators were free. gosh those were the days.<br /><br />in 1982, i started a 10 years hiatus. i have been collecting prewar cards since about 1993. i did go through a "shiny stage"....what a waste of time and money.<br /><br />glad i'm here......very glad.

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Posted By: <b>Mike McGrail</b><p>I have reached the big 40 recently and have been a vintage (for me everything before 1941) nut-case since 2001. Before that it was primarily 1950 and 1960 sets.<br /><br />Mike<br /><br /><br /> <img src="http://www.network54.com/Realm/tmp/1151327414.JPG">

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Posted By: <b>Peter Thomas</b><p>Just turned 64 - not quite prewar. Have been collecting since I was 7, with a long pause from 1961 until early eighties when my son got interested. In about 1950 my step-grand-dad gave be a bunch of goudeys. Still have them and with the exception of 49 leafs and Williams cards, I collect cards older than me. Thought I might be sitting on the pine by now, but just took on a 6 to 8 year assignment don't feel 64.

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Posted By: <b>davidcycleback</b><p>Before his birthday, a newspaper reporter once sent Cary Grant a telegram that said, "How Old Cary Grant?"<br /><br />Grant replied "Old Cary Grant fine. How are you?"

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Posted By: <b>Trae R.</b><p>I am 25 and have been collecting the good stuff for a little over 2 years as of this post.

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Posted By: <b>nbrazil</b><p>24 years old. been collecting prewar for about a year. before that, post war. before that, modern. still collect post war, but kicked the modern habit.

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Posted By: <b>Keith O'Leary</b><p><P>51, about 30 years seriously.</P><P>&nbsp;</P>

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Posted By: <b>dd</b><p>I'm 36 and have been collecting cards since 1976 with my first pre-war cards purchased in 1981.

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Posted By: <b>Scott Gross</b><p>46 in a few weeks.<br />Vintage collecting 4-5 years. Purely an "ebay" inspired collector (although I have expanded to some other auctions).<br /><br />I have always loved baseball as far back as I can remember, but always from the sport and technical side of it: When I was 5-6, my parents took me to a Little League game (to watch the "big boys" play). There was a player on first and third. I remember turning to my father and saying: "If the guy on first tries to steal second, and the catcher throws the ball, the guy on third could score." No one ever explained the double steal to me, it was just in my understanding...... If you think that story is corny now, just wait 'till I'm 86 and retell it ..... <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14><br /><br /><br /><br />

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Posted By: <b>Wesley</b><p>35<br /><br />I had a near set of 1933 Sport Kings in 1993, but became more serious about pre-war in 1999.

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Posted By: <b>Dustan Hedlin</b><p>I am 24, and I've only been collecting pre-war for about 2 months. I have collected modern cards for 16 years though. I've got 6 T206's in my collection, and will hopefully have that number doubled or tripled by the end of the year. I've been mostly lurking/learning on this board since I found it. There is a lot of information here.

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Posted By: <b>joe</b><p>65, and counting, had to wait for Ted to post. But look what you get in the older days.<br /><img src="http://www.network54.com/Realm/tmp/1151372204.JPG"> <img src="http://www.network54.com/Realm/tmp/1151372245.JPG">

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Posted By: <b>Andrew</b><p>I am 29. I have been collecting cards since I ripped open my first pack of 1987 Topps, and pre-war for about 6 years now. <br /><br />Andrew<br />