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JeremyA couple of points re/ why folks buy reprints...(To each his own) To piggy-back on Frank's comments, I purchased several reprint sets from LFC b/c of affordability and a inexpensive collecting mission. I wanted to put together a HOF Player collection and I wound up doing it for cards from 1870-1949 in Reprint format, then focused on the real thing from 1950-2008. Had a ball putting this HOF player collection together, did it for under $1,000 and put each one in a 9 pocket (old style...) page 3 Ring notebook, and I love getting this 3 Ring Folder out to show my boys... We pull the cards out, look at the backs, and this does include stuff like a Mayo, OJ, T's, Reprints, etc... Then I let them touch and smell the Vg-Ex 64 Mantle, the ex-mt 67 Aaron, and the vg 53 Hal Newhouser... (You get the point)-- My true collecting focus is pre-war and is minor league-southern league material, so I put more than my fair share of green backs into this arena, but I smile every time I get that $1,000 HOF collection notebook out to flip the pages and look at the 270ish Player/Mgr Type cards from the 1800's to current. I have all the important type cards and my favorite particular card of each HOF player and accomplished it in little time with no money.
Also, someone mentioned finding some of those cards that are hard to find... I accomplished this with LFC over the holidays. Picked up a T207 Hub Perdue for $70 and a T213-2 Bridwell-Nashville card for $41 as well as some 50's PC's of Southern league players. I have been after these 2 cards for some time and while the Perdue seems difficult to locate, the Bridwell-Nashville Variation is virtually impossible. (I have been after it for 5 years) Just looked through his online vintage catlog, plucked out what I wanted and noticed a few others had beaten me to the punch in the last several months for a few dozen Type 1 Coupon cards, some hard to find Colgan Chips, etc....
While I don't want to sound like a LFC commercial, I have only done business with him maybe 3 or 4 times, but have been very pleased at his range of Vintage raw material and of course the reprint stuff happen to fit part of my collecting strategy...
Best,
~ Jeremy ~