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Originally Posted by cardsagain74
Thanks Jason. I've only been back in the hobby for barely six months (and had never collected vintage as a teen the first time), but my focus has changed a few times too in just that short time.
I'm not sure whether the rest of my '52 T set or acquiring the others will take precedence. At the moment I'm just picking up whatever good deals I can afford that fit any collecting or possibly future business needs.
Been considering this too though: if I were to acquire that entire run, where would I go from there? A big part of the fun is getting something worthwhile within your card preferences that you didn't have.
But since I have so little interest in variations/lots of upgrades/pre-war/post vintage/non-standard issues.....basically anything outside the nuts and bolts '51 to '85, with few exceptions......it feels like there wouldn't be much left afterward
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I have always been a set builder since I was a kid. I have the entire run of Topps sets (1951 to present). When I got back into collecting about 20 years ago, I had sets from 1975 and up that I had collected as a kid and beyond (bought a basic set every year even when I wasn't collecting anything else). As a big Phillies fan, I started with Phillies team sets for all the older Topps sets. Once that was done, I thought I would put together sets going back to 1968 (year I was born). Once that was done, I started going back further and further until I eventually had completed them all.
At that point, I started on Bowman sets and completed the run from 1948-1955. Then I started to get into pre-war and worked on T201s, Play Balls and Diamond Stars. Then it was some oddball stuff - Kelloggs, Fleer and Laughlin sets. Lately, it is Exhibits and Red Mans.
Completing a run of Topps sets will take quite a while, but if you eventually do, even though you don't think you have other interests, it is amazing how you will find something along the way that interests you to collect. At least, that has been true for me. Good luck with the 1952 set and any others you decide to work on.