[rugbymarine]

Pre-War: 3
1940s: 1 (Furillo RC)
1950s: 19
1960s: 54
1970s: 40 (Mostly Jim Palmer & Brooks)
1980s: 20 (Rickey RC and the tail end of Palmer's career)
1990s: 3 (RCs for Chipper, Pudge & Shaq)
2000+: 35 (a Miggy RC and a smattering of Topps Heritage)

175 cards.

I've got a handful of loose cards around, but those could be thrown out/donated tomorrow, so I didn't think counting those was the point of the exercise.

Since I got back into collecting 7-8 years ago, I've had to keep telling myself to be intentional about quality over quantity. If I ever needed to (now is a good time to go read the thread on inheritances/passing on your collection/etc), quality is SO much easier to liquidate than quantity. I've also found in that time, that I enjoy a lower quantity of higher quality cards just as much as a higher quantity of cards.

I don't really collect sets anymore. I stick to nice-looking cards of HOF, and where the budget allows, HOF rookies.

Pre-war items were not on my radar at all until I joined net54 a few years back. I'd love to collect more pre-war, and I've bought 2 HOF tobacco cards in the last 6 months, but with my current collecting budget, pre-war HOF are tough to come by. Maybe one day...

For now, I'll acquire nice cards as they come up for sale, all while enjoying the journey, and the people, and the cards I already have. I'm younger than a lot of card collectors, so time is on my side.