Show Your Oldest Card....

[bcookie]

not oldest made, but the card you have had the longest..

and tell about it..

[rainier2004]

Had this for nearly 29 years...

[ALR-bishop]

[39special]

My dad bought me this card in '79.Carl signed it for me in his driveway in the same year.When I stopped collecting 25+ years ago,it is the only card I didn't sell.Every time I look at it,it reminds me of my dad,and being a kid.
Somedays I wish I still was a kid!!

[auggiedoggy]

Originally Posted by 39special

My dad bought me this card in '79.Carl signed it for me in his driveway in the same year.When I stopped collecting 25+ years ago,it is the only card I didn't sell.Every time I look at it,it reminds me of my dad,and being a kid.
Somedays I wish I still was a kid!!

Nice card and story.

Tried to quit and have sold off half my collection but I'm finding it very hard to completely stop collecting.

I'm guessing that card will remain with you until your last days. It would with me also.

[Leon]

Originally Posted by auggiedoggy

Nice card and story.

Tried to quit and have sold off half my collection but I'm finding it very hard to completely stop collecting.

I'm guessing that card will remain with you until your last days. It would with me also.

If it were mine it would be with me for literally eternity. Hopefully it will be with 39Special that long too...

[auggiedoggy]

Originally Posted by Leon

If it were mine it would be with me for literally eternity. Hopefully it will be with 39Special that long too...

Leon,

You're right. If I had a card with that kind of sentimental value it literally would stay with me for eternity.

[39special]

Originally Posted by auggiedoggy

Nice card and story.

Tried to quit and have sold off half my collection but I'm finding it very hard to completely stop collecting.

I'm guessing that card will remain with you until your last days. It would with me also.

I already told my wife to make sure I'm buried with it!!

[Runscott]

Top is my oldest true baseball card. I don't collect OJ's, so it's also my only one.

Bottom is one of my oldest non-card 'cards' - 2 from a set of 1869 Cabinets:

[jimivintage]

In 1986, while helping my dad tear down a wall in our 19th century home, we unearthed a plethora of stuff including an old curling iron, postcards, medicine bottles, and a Sweet Caporal pack which had this card in it. I remember that we didn't bother to open it until the early 1990s when dad read somewhere that there could be a card in the old tobacco packs. (Mind you, in 1986 I was 8 years old.) A couple years go I finally got it graded. Love this card and the memories!

[slidekellyslide]

Not only are these the oldest cards I own, but I have owned them longer than any other cards in my collection. My dad gave them to me in the early 1980s...not sure of an exact year, but he gave them to me in the hopes I would stop buying new cards by the case full and spend my money on vintage. It took me a long time to come around to that idea as I sold off every card I owned except for these three in 1989...Went off to college, forgot about collecting for about a decade and got back into collecting around the time I got married in 1998.

[Paul S]

Originally Posted by bcookie

not oldest made, but the card you have had the longest.. and tell about it..

Already derailed. Doesn't anybody really read the OP anymore?

[slidekellyslide]

Originally Posted by Paul S

Already derailed. Doesn't anybody really read the OP anymore?

The three cards I posted above ARE the cards I've owned the longest...probably about 30 years. I did buy cards in the 1970s when I was even younger, but I sold those off.

[Runscott]

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[Paul S]

Originally Posted by Runscott

I made the mistake of assuming that the title of the thread actually had something to do with the content.

My apologies.

Apologies not necessary. To you and all. My bad. I just thought I saw a thread with great potential running away. Great cards, everyone.

-Little Leon

[atx840]

Shown this a few times (Mantle), dad pulled from pack as a kid in '53, gave it to me as a birthday gift the day I was born...36 years ago.

[Runscott]

Okay, the card that I have owned the longest is a '73 Munson. It was from the last year I bought baseball cards new. I gave away or sold all of those pos-war cards except the Munson - it was the nicest-condition semi-star card I had from those days, so I sent it to SGC for preservation. It came back an 84.

[triwak]

Pulled straight from the pack when I was 7 years old... And well loved!!

[RCMcKenzie]

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I bought a few 1975 Topps packs, but the first year I started to collect and sort the cards was 1977. Here are some still in the same sheets.

The 57 Solly Hemus was given to me by my Dad, sort of out of the blue one day in the late 70's. I did not know who the player was and did not understand until much later that Hemus had been a star for the local Buffaloes, the Cardinals minor league affiliate.

I ordered the Goudey from the a mail order ad in the late 70's and paid with my own cash. I think it was from Baseball Digest, not sure.

The oldest cards by cards are probably the OJ scripts.

[Matthew H]

My "oldest" card is my 68 Mantle that my dad bought me for my 8th birthday. He took me and my brothers to Portland OR for my birthday, took me to a local card shop and let me pick something out... I picked the Mantle, he paid $60 for it, it's probably still worth $60 today. It's priceless to me.

[jimivintage]

Originally Posted by triwak

Pulled straight from the pack when I was 7 years old... And well loved!!

So, since you pulled this from a pack in '68, do you remember how the creases were made? Now THAT would add to the provenance.

[deadballfreaK]

I'm pretty sure my first cards were cut out the backs of Post Cereal boxes around 62-63. I still collect those, but not sure if any of those originals have survived. Really started collected in 1964 and I know I still have those. First series Topps #s 1-88. My first prewar war card was a Brown Hindu of Wilbur Goode I bought for maybe $1 in 1974 or 75. Still have that.

[triwak]

Originally Posted by jimivintage

So, since you pulled this from a pack in '68, do you remember how the creases were made? Now THAT would add to the provenance.

Perhaps I should have said "well loved AND well handled!" Cardinal fan here, and Gibby was one of my heroes. 1968 was a decent year for him, I guess! Also for me, since that's when I started collecting. And I still have EVERY card from my childhood, as well as every card I've ever purchased since. I'm not a very good seller!

[Shoele$$]

Originally Posted by atx840

Shown this a few times (Mantle), dad pulled from pack as a kid in '53, gave it to me as a birthday gift the day I was born...36 years ago.

Whoa Chris, unbelievable Mantle card and an even better story behind it. Very nice!

[atx840]

Thanks guys, unfortunately the card is no longer mine

Two and a half years ago it was passed on to my son..

[CW]

Originally Posted by atx840

Thanks guys, unfortunately the card is no longer mine

Two and a half years ago it was passed on to my son..

Haha... nice. At first I was like, "HE SOLD IT???" , but then I was like