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Originally Posted by SAllen2556

Is this is common in other parts of the country? Is the demand for really old stuff so low that it just isn't worth it for these dealers? Does the pre-war crowd just not stoop so low as to attend or set up at a show anymore?!

It is common where I live (PA). I came that realization this year when I went to the first couple card shows I had been to in probably a decade.

None were large, so that should be taken into account. But one in a mall with maybe ten dealers had zero pre-war cards at all. One guy had a T205 common he said, but it was buried in his stuff and he had no idea where it was. A second I went to a few weeks ago had about 20 dealers, but only one had any pre-war stuff. And even in that case, it was a handful of commons. A few of the looks when I inquired about them were priceless.

Like i said, both were very small and the bigger shows will have a better selection. But I wrote a post a while back about how hard it is to find cards not on the internet. I have crazy respect for set collectors of pre-war cards from the pre-internet days.