cutoff for type card collecting

[darwinbulldog]

I'm curious what the type card collectors here use as their year cutoff for collecting an issue and how they decided on that particular year. I can think of at least 4 reasonable candidate years for a "pre-war" date (all covered here http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article....uleId=10007306)
and two others cutoffs that make a little more sense to me (Burdick related), but I'm sure others have cutoff dates other than these 6 years.

[conor912]

Originally Posted by darwinbulldog

I'm curious what the type card collectors here use as their year cutoff for collecting an issue and how they decided on that particular year. I can think of at least 4 reasonable candidate years for a "pre-war" date (all covered here http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article....uleId=10007306)
and two others cutoffs that make a little more sense to me (Burdick related), but I'm sure others have cutoff dates other than these 6 years.

Gee, I sure wasn't expecting that page to be called the Holocaust Encylopedia.

I don't collect/cutoff by year/era, but rather by issue designation (i.e. R, T, E, etc.)

[Tao_Moko]

I have started a type collection as a way to slowly build back 25 years worth of collecting that I unfortunately sold. It's too much to bite off at once so I've decided to stay between 1900 and 1912. C, E, T and M only. None of my cards stay slabbed and end up in 20 slot sheets so I've also limited them to the "skinny" series for each type.

I started with the more difficult:

E103 and E107
T209-1 and -2
C46 and M116 are about the only two in those years that fit my in my sheets so they were easy.

When I get close to finishing you will see my scans on the pickup thread.

[Leon]

I collect from 1900-1949, mainly. Had some 19th century and sold them...and 1950 seemed like there were a lot of cards put out so I just went to 1949. I go by ACC first then use my own system that parallels the ACC numbering/lettering scheme. Add in tobacco packs, gum containers and ephemera surrounding our cards and there you have it. Crap everywhere!!

[ethicsprof]

I collect from 1900-1939. I use ACC and add a few favs beyond Burdick's
great tome. I also collect baseball photos which illuminate this time period
and move a bit beyond these parameters as I choose favs from most of the great
vintage and modern baseball photographers. I also collect tobacco packs
and game materials which help more clearly portray the 00-39 period.
I have lately dabbled a bit in oil paintings and have picked up a Perez
'clark griffith' and a Houle 'charlie gehringer'.
I should add that my choosing of 00-39 was a bit arbitrary. I basically wanted
to be pre-WWII and felt the 40s didn't seem 'vintage' to someone born in '51.
all the best,
barry

[Wite3]

My Phillies list cutoff date is 1989...I collect anything and everything Phillies card related from 1880s to 1989....I used that cutoff for two reasons. The original list I compiled, I used three reference guides that stopped at 1989 (started research in 1990). The second reason is the insert/parallel craze started to ramp up at that time and I felt that anything before that was okay.

Joshua