For some of us that only got back into collecting later in life, like me, it's sometimes hard to realize the other worlds of baseball card collecting. I had a friend come over a few years ago that buys/sells/collects mostly 1950's baseball cards. After we chatted a little while I reallly had my eyes opened as to what was really going on. I am just going to take a wild stab here but I believe our Pre-WWII baseball card collecting is less than 1% of total baseball card collecting...and it could be much, much less......and this too was told to me by a good friend, full time, California dealer. I think his words were something like "the pre-war market is like a pimple on an elephant's arse
." There's a metaphor fer ya'!!