Like board member Mark above, I bought my first vintage cards back in about 1971 from dealers in the back of the Sporting News. I believe my first card was a T206 Bender and I think it came from Stan Martucci, a dealer on Long Island (I lived in Virginia). A couple of years ago I found his old price list and I still remember that if I had had the money back in '71, he would have sold me all the Topps complete sets from 1954 to 1970 (in what he called A-1 condition) for a total of under $1000.
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