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Originally Posted by CardsMax
The lack of vintage at the show is way more indicative of the lack of vintage dealers on the West Coast (and as mentioned in this thread, Florida as well) than it is the overall strength of the vintage market.
Not to mention near every dealer with Mantles/Jackie/Ruth/Clemente/Hank in their showcase was in the stratosphere above recent sales.
I travel for a ton of shows and it's really just The National (where I bought 0 Vintage this year), Chantilly, and Philly for shows that have any decent real vintage: both in prewar and strong 50-70s stuff. Strongsville I hear has an immaculate reputation, but I've never been. The JP Shows in NY and Garfield NJ are fine local shows with a strong amount of vintage.
But outside of those first three shows and Strongsville...maybe the Chicago Spectacular too...shows just aren't made for vintage anymore.
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I’ve been all over these last couple of years, and have spent more money at shows in the last three years than I ever did in the past. That said, still a drop in the bucket, I told most of the dealers today that I need a 10x multiplier on my war chest apparently as everything I’m interested in has an extra 0 at the end of the price.
I picked up two vintage cards today, nothing crazy, but it was slim pickings, especially in what I was looking for, and for a reasonable price. For vintage, Strongsville is king, followed by Chantilly in my book. I hope to make it to Philly and Dallas this next year, as well as back to Strongsville and the National.
The west coast is light on vintage, which makes sense, there are some pockets of good stuff, but in my experience, the best stuff as far as variety and price resides on the east coast. Burbank was a good venue, with a good number of tables, still a fun show even if it didn’t have the wide variety of an east coast show.