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Old 03-15-2007, 12:57 PM
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Posted By: Darren

I'll add mine this evening.

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Old 03-15-2007, 01:04 PM
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Posted By: Dave

I have approximately 3,000 pre-1921 baseball related cards in my collection.
about 80% of my collection consists of 1909-1912 issues. the rest is all 1887 old judge material. I also have 30 or 40 pre 1920's baseball gloves, and about 12 pre-1920's baseballs and bats.

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Old 03-15-2007, 01:20 PM
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Posted By: Joe_G.

Dave, are you saying you have ~600 OJs? I think you need to change your handle to N172Dave

My collection on the other hand is relatively small, ~80 cards, almost all 19th century Detroit.

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Old 03-15-2007, 01:20 PM
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Posted By: Darren

Oh, WW1 began in 1914.

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Old 03-15-2007, 01:30 PM
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Posted By: George Dreher

Pre-1920 cards in all sports and non-sports totals just over 100,000 cards. Just counting baseball cards, around 60,000. The rest are mostly boxing, hockey and non-sports.

Been collecting for over 40 years

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Sorry Darren, pre-1914 would cut it down a bit since I can't add Cracker Jack and other issues between 1914 & 1920

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Old 03-15-2007, 01:33 PM
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Posted By: peter chao

Guys,

All right, I'll admit it I only have 4 pre-WWI cards in my collection of 200,000 cards. Yes that's right, I collect mostly the newer stuff. In my defense though, my participation in this forum is quickly changing my collecting ways.

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Old 03-15-2007, 01:42 PM
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Posted By: Mark L

Since the USA didn't enter WW I until 1917, couldn't we count Cracker Jacks, m101's, and such?

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Old 03-15-2007, 01:46 PM
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About 50 T206's right now in my permanant collection...anything else is more of a revolving door.

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Old 03-15-2007, 03:05 PM
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Hey Joe...I wish all of them were N172. a lot of the old judge cards I have are non-sport related. Just historical. I have about 103 N172 cards, and several of them are duplicates of the same cards just in deffereing conditions

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Old 03-15-2007, 03:19 PM
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Posted By: John

My breakdown is as such..

Baseball Cards 850-1000

Other Sports/Non-Sports 1500-2000

Hope this helps.

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Old 03-15-2007, 03:39 PM
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Posted By: Al C.risafulli

I have about 300 cards pre-1914. Only four of them are 19th century, although I do have 7 or 8 Newsboy cabinets of actresses and a couple of 19th century trade cards.

I have about another 500 between 1914 and 1945.

In my "active" collection, I have about 50 postwar cards, plus complete 1977 and 1978 sets (the first cards I collected as a kid).

And I have tons and tons of crap I've accumulated over the years.

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Posted By: Scot Reader

George,

How do I get in your will?

Edited to add: I have about 160, mostly T206.

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Old 03-15-2007, 04:23 PM
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Posted By: T206Collector

...different T206 cards.

(that's a bit of a fib, I have three or four low condition doubles that need to be sold.)

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Posted By: paulstratton

Probably around 1, 500. Last time I counted I remember thinking, "What have I gotten myself into?".

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Old 03-15-2007, 04:40 PM
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Posted By: Joann

Wow. Annnd bringing up to the rear ... I have around 110 pre WWI cards in my collection, give or take. So few that I can actually still see them all at once by just spreading them out on the kitchen counter if I move a few things around.

But I like them all!!

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Posted By: Judson Hamlin

As of today, 967 (#967 is an M116 Zwilling - thanks Lloyd Taylor!). 968 should be a T206 Elberfeld en route via eBay.

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Old 03-15-2007, 04:50 PM
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Posted By: Ryan Christoff

George,

I'd love to hear more details about your collection. It sounds incredible. 60,000 pre-war baseball cards?!!! Amazing. In your 40+ years of collecting you must have added an average of over 100 pre-war baseball cards per month, every single month! In 40 years, that would still leave you shy of 50,000.

Even if you had 10 complete T206 sets and every different Old Judge player and pose known, you'd still need over 50,000 more cards. You must have dupes upon dupes upon dupes.

Which issue do you have the most dupes of? What individual card do you have the most examples of?

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Posted By: Glenn

Exactly 15.

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Posted By: Darren

baseball -- 2700
non-baseball -- 6200

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Old 03-15-2007, 07:28 PM
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Posted By: Neal

Approximately:

Pre 1940 Baseball 1200 cards

Pre 1960 Football 500 cards

Plus tons of autographs!

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My pre-war "inventory" consists of 486 low grade T206's.

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Old 03-15-2007, 07:49 PM
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Posted By: George Dreher

Scot, give me one of your mansions and I'll add you to my will.

Ryan, between 1967 and 1990 I traveled quite a bit and bought old cards in bulk and from auctions, estate sales, etc. Sometimes single purchases would consist of thousands of cards. It would take a great deal of time just to do a breakdown set by set. I have most of the cards from every reasonably obtainable set from Allen & Ginter up until the 1920s strip cards. By the way, I hate the strip cards and anytime I end up with any in multiple card lots, I get rid of them.

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Posted By: Kevin Cummings

I'm definitely at the lower end of the quantity spectrum with 269 pre-WWI cards, over half of which are Old Judges.

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Posted By: leon

Me too....Since type collecting isn't really about quantity, I bet I only have about 200-300, not including generic baseball decks, from pre-war....My total collection isn't much larger than a T206 set....

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Posted By: peter ullman

wow george...having started collecting way back then...I'd think most sets within that period were "within reason!" I'd love to visit your collection!

I, like many others here are/was a type collector and I have just a few hundred "vintage" cards.

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360, though I just listed a few on eBay.

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Posted By: Eric Brehm

I have 40 pre-WWI cards, all T206's. All depict Hall of Fame players.

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Just 25 here. WWI; July 28, 1914- Nov 11, 1918

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800 or so Sports
50 non-sports (N2 Indian Chiefs Set)

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Posted By: Mark L

A question for those whose pre-war collection ranges from 1000 and up: how many of those cards are t206's? how many are e-90's? how many 19th century?

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Posted By: Bruce MacPherson

Just checked my not so up to date spreadsheet and came up with approximately 250 pre WWI cards. Add in my few CJs, m-101s, Goudeys etc. and my entire collection is no more than 350 cards. Until now I would have guessed the number was significantly higher. (p.s. This does not include my 1972 Topps set that I bought on a whim cause I think they look cool)

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Posted By: James Feagin

I typically don't collect common players or low-grade (beaters) so my collection is way small. Probably between 75-100.

James

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Posted By: peter chao

I have 4 T206's all hall of famers, my favorites among them are Christy Mathewson's white and dark cap. It's going to be a while before I catch up to you George.

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It would appear that way Peter...better eat your wheaties.

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Posted By: Matthew

~215 t206s
~420 t212s
29 t209s
16 asst t types

43 asst e types
26 e254s
~120 e136s

9 asst d types

exactly 1 19th cent Old Judge

~130 other pre war (other sports, non sports)



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Posted By: George Dreher

T206 - 5900+
E90 - around 80
19th century baseball - 1300+

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Posted By: peter ullman

george...that's quite a # of t206's!!! Do you have all of the different backs? Cobb back? Just curious! one of my 100 or so t206's!

pete in mn

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Posted By: George Dreher

Nice card Peter. No I don't own a Cobb back. Have at least one example of the other 15 though. No Wagners, but I sold a raw one in good condition many years ago.

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Posted By: peter ullman

wow george...rock and roll. you should open a museum!

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23, soon to be 24.

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