Started collecting tobacco cards when I was 10 in 1908, about when I started smoking too. Had boxes and boxes full of T206s although we didn't call 'em that then. Got myself killed in the World War. Don't know what happened to my cards.
Was reincarnated in 1950, saw my first Topps baseball cards in 1955 and got hooked again. Busted packs, flipped and traded through the fifties, then migrated to comic books and then to sex and drugs and rock'n'roll. Cards did not survive.
Came into the vintage card game around 2000, tentatively at first, but it's an all-consuming passion now.
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