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[Classic Wax Cards]

Hello everyone.

My name is Eric, and although I've read many threads here before, I just registered an account here today. I enjoy the quality info content and the demeanor of the members.

I'm almost 40 years old. I collected heavily as a kid through the junk wax era. in my 20's I collected old cards from the 50's and 60's. In my 30's I tried getting into the current card game...game used, numbered, auto... I just couldn't do it. I do however love some of the newer cards of old classic players. I went back to collecting older cards and started to get into older stuff. 1930's and some tobacco cards. With the prices involved though, I wasn't getting my fill of collecting and physical cards.

Hungry for cards all the same, I decided a year or 2 ago, that I was going to collect a "complete junk wax collection." All the highly sought after cards from when I was a kid. I know them all. I love them all. And I dont really have any anymore. About 6 months ago I started the project. Ive been buying up sets and boxes from various brands and years. I'll generally save a sealed factory set, and then rip a couple sets and/or wax boxes for the best cards in an untouched condition. Ripping sets like that has become like ripping packs and not knowing what you are going to get. You know its in there, but what will the centering and color be like lol. Could be a gem. And I've pulled a few now this way.

Its been very fulfilling starting this junk wax collection. I've only got 5 "sets" done. not really sets, but at least a complete set and several seperate copies of all the star cards or cards of value or interest. I've got another 6 lined up. Everything's here, I just haven't started the ripping yet. It's such a buyers market for junk wax. Easy to collect!

And that leads to me coming here. I'll be upfront about it right away to get it out of the way. I have a few websites. The topic of each is something I'm into to some extent in my personal life. That allows me to chronicle what I'm doing and adds something personal in the industry. I have a few projects like that. I put up some industry related ads and hopefully the site pays for itself. I don't think they do though, but its fun all the same. The aquarium site I do with my daughter though and she gets the money from it which amounts to just a little spending money for a kid.

here's where it gets weird. I'm not trying to plug my site by mentioning it here, but just trying to awkwardly get it out of the way I guess. I started a blog about the cards I've been collecting. It's been a great way for me to get a little further into my collection, and maybe even add something to the industry. I'm writing simple articles on junk wax cards. Basically, they are a several part series for each brand/year that talks about quirky things that are fun to discuss and remember. Its set up so I can ad an article to whatever brand/year, whenever I want. And I do jump between years in the articles.

I'm sure my simple blog and style of writing is far from the levels of what others produce who hang out here who could be reading this. I'm ok with that though. I'm not here to promote it. Although I do acknowledge my link in the sig and the profile and stuff doesn't hurt, It's not really my intent.

What is my intent though is to get a little interesting conversation about some specific junk wax years/sets. I've been churning out articles and I'd like to think they are all original. It gets hard though sometimes trying to write a "Part 4" for something interesting about a particular set/year. I'm pulling it off though. I joined this forum today so I could make posts about a particular year/brand, and maybe explore, or hear some feedback of what people think of that particular product. Like their impressions, opinions, cards they remembered... whatever comes up. I basically don't get to communicate with any other baseball card people over here. I don't have anyone to bounce stuff off of when I'm writting. I hope people would find that both suitable and welcome content for here. It would help stir up some interesting topics for me to write about I think. Or at least give me some things to think about while writing. Like for instance....what set should I tackle next of the 6 I have sitting here lol. It's not my intent to plug my simple site to people here. Just wanted to kinda say that so people knew.

I looked at a lot of forums and very specifically chose this one. and this category. I'd like to participate here. This will be the only baseball card related forum I'll be partaking in.

I look forward to posting and discussing here, and I hope I can be an asset to the community here.

-Eric.