'What's the most inexpensive vintage card you still have in your collection?'
 

Ted Z is the inspiration for this thread.

Some great stories could be harvested here!

I don't have any myself, but can't wait to hear y'all's (southern expression meaning 'your's')

The J.W. Porter card. The card itself cost $1, shipping in a plain white envelope without a cardsaver was another $2. To fully appreciate the wear and tear on it, you have to put it on top of another '53 Topps, and see how much of the card has ceased to exist. When I sent it to Mr. Porter (~18 months ago) he included a signed custom card, and a note explaining that he felt so bad about the condition of the card that he threw in the custom.
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Fun story on the Porter

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Don Money. 99 cents!

Bill, there's no need to discuss presidential politics in this thread! :D

I always liked this card and the piece of history it captures in the movement toward free agency. I display it as part of my main collection. It cost less than $2.

Kid in 50's and 60's
 

Growing up I used to save my money all winter for when the first series of cards would come out. I'd go to the store and buy a WHOLE box for $1.20 in 1959-1962. I know I still have some of these cards, although I couldn't tell which ones. My cost..... a penny each.

Of course if I were really smart (and had a crystal ball) I wouldva saved my grass cutting money and bought boxes of 1961 7th series with all the All-Stars.

Spent about $30 on this bad boy. Worth every penny:

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Paid $12 for this when I was a kid; slabbed it years later, of course

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Plenty of cheap stuff in my collection.

48 Bowman FB - Maybe 8 of them, free! :D Trash picked them walking home from the local card shop in I think 78 or 79. Looked down as I walked past and there was a plastic page with a few cards in it. (Yes, I checked with the shop to see if someone has swiped them from the shop) Beaters, but for the price...And they came with a free plastic page too.

First T206 was a Beckley Polar bear that was badly torn and taped together 20 cents.

Plus what ever I got in packs from 69- whenever all of those would be between 1 and 2 cents.

Steve B

These are some of the few remaining cards from my original collection. Found in our attic in the mid '90s (under the floor boards), as we made one final sweep prepping my Moms house to sell. I was nine when I cut them off the cereal box:D
Larry
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$1. My dad bought it for me when I was a little kid. At old drive-in flea market about 1974. Graded it to protect it forever.

Likely this Aaron pictured here?

That pose of Big Klu is one of my favorite baseball cards of all time!

1957 Topps Eddie Robinson
 

Stumbled upon this 1957 Topps Eddie Robinson over the weekend while doing some Spring cleaning. I've had this card since the 70's, must have been in a multi-card trade back then. Anyway, Robinson is still going at 95 and wrote a book about MLB front offices from what I saw today...

Taking some time today to evaluate my collection. Happened upon this card and remembered finding it at a show in a $1 box maybe 15 years ago.

The only 1960 Topps card I own.

In Sept., 1979, I went to a card show in New York and bought a Seaver rookie, nm, for $6.75.

The 20-20 hindsight from our childhood, with respect to cards, would have been great. I know I had piles of late 60s and very early 70s cards strewn everywhere. I wish I had kept some. I sold everything for 50 bucks to the kid I got Bar Mitzvahed with, he was the smart one obviously.

Chris, your post reminded me that I have lots of 1955-1960 cards that cost me a penny when I was a youngster. Fortunately, after I left home, got married, and started a family, Mom called me out of the blue one day 9n the early 1970's to say she had come across a couple of boxes of my childhood baseball cards and was about to toss them, but decided to first ask me if I happened to want them. Thinking that my rug rats might collect cards one day, I asked her to hold them until I next visited. It never entered my mind that I might start collecting again one day (my boys never got interested). This is the only card from my youth that I happen to have already scanned (and graded) - the rest of them are raw. The only reason I recently got this one graded is to use it as trade bait, because to me, it is one of the ugliest Mantle cards ever produced - I realize that most collectors think otherwise!
Val

Nice card, and sweet story about your dad.