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Originally Posted by jimivintage
Share your stories and offer some advice!  |
I'm a set builder at heart, but I started a pre-war type collection about a year ago. My working list is : all the sets listed in old cardbaord.com. I sort of hit a wall at around 75 diferent types. Currently sitting at 82 types. I may have found all the relatively-common-types-that-I-can-afford. It is a great way to learn more about a wide variety of cards, plus you can get a better feel for multiple sets. I've found a handful of pre-war sets that I really liked once I hold a card in person, and am buying more than one card of those types.
Here's where I give you a suggestion for type collecting
: Pick one of the acc letter designations and try to collect all of those. That may satisfy your need to build sets, limit your search abit, and also give you a taste of type collecting. I got pretty close to getting all the "R" types - I needed an Uncle Jacks and an R311 leather and some of the wide pen types. Then I decided to limit my cards in size to postcard size and smaller and sold a few of the larger ones, but you get the point.
Tony