Poll: What do you consider a "Vintage" baseball card?
 

Just looked at a previous post where someone is selling cards from the 80's & 90's and labeled them as "Vintage".

In your opinion, which time period would you consider calling a card Vintage?

To start things off, I would say the 1940's.

I would say '60's on back.

I hit 60's since the early part of that decade is over 50 years old

It seems that 1969 is the newest year that I accept as vintage. I kinda break it into three though; Pre-1970, Pre-1957 and Pre-War.......:)

60's for me too. I've always seen it that way, since I was a kid in the 80's. I don't really know why, but the cutoff point was literally 1969. 1970 topps wasn't vintage to me.

Anything before WW1

I know what you mean. Recently, I was bored with hunting down the stray big dawgs and high numbers I need in the 60's and had a buddy send me a pile of 1970 commons just because. I believe he sent like 220 cards. That is where thayt set will sit.....It just didn't FEEL right.....:D

I said 70s because once we get to the 80s the TOPPS dynasty was over for a generation or more. *(and maybe I didn't want to feel so old, growing up as a kid in the 60s)

Older than me so the thirties
 

Although I still have a hankering for the first cards that I collected as a kid 49 Leafs:

60s cards are now 40+ to 50+ years old. I would say that makes them vintage.

I think 60's... People outside of collecting that I know even think Mantle is the main 'vintage' player. His last card was in '69 so I guess that's the most recent year of vintage to me.

70s on back.

Mid '90's on craigslist.

It seems to me it depends on your age.

If you collected when you were a child, then stopped and came back to it when you were older. It seems like the decade you were first collecting in starts the vintage.

If you have collected as long as you can remember with no break, it is the decade before you were born (or started collecting).

40's... to me, Topps ended vintage

As a kid, I collected from 1975-1983, and even then I felt that the 1950s were vintage; especially the 1950-52 Bowman full color "art" cards, which looked vintage because they were not photos (kind of like the 1933-34 Goudeys, at least in my mind).....

1973, the last year of true multiple series

I think pre-70's is vintage. I was born '78. Those ebay posts made me feel old with the "vintage" reference.

Shouldn't the question read "what is the latest you consider to be a vintage card?" I said 1950's, because we are talking 50-60 years old, and the 1950's were a golden age of many things American, baseball cards included.

I think US customs says anything over 100 years old.

There is something to be said about the the demise of series issues. There is something just not right about being to buy an entire set before Opening Day. I have actually heard the 1970's referred to as "Semi Vintage"....:eek:

I voted 1940's only because i started collecting in the early 80's and felt anything pre topps was vintage at that time. I guess i'm still in denial that 30+ years have passed and maybe i'm starting to get old and not ready to call myself vintage.

rule of thumb...
 

i always thought the arbitrary cut-offs were 50 years old for vintage and 100 years of age to be an antique.

PreWW2 cards

It's interesting, this thread has made me rethink what vintage is. I always thought it was basically universally known that pre-80 was vintage and 80-later was modern. But after reading some of the posts here, I'm leaning towards vintage starting pre-70 now. So I voted 1960's.

Thanks,

AndyH

I like using 50 yrs old as drawing a line, hence my vote for the '60's.

I'm close, for me 1919 is the last year of vintage cards so the T213-3 set makes it as a vintage set.

I always say:

Vintage: 1959 and older
Old cards: 1960's
Semi-old cards: 1970's
Recent cards: 1980's
Almost current cards: 1990's
Current cards: 2000+

I have been lately re-thinking this though, and i think 1960's are probably vintage now we are already in 2012.

I guess it shows my age when i go nuts over someone talking about a 1992 VINTAGE card!!!!