Collecting Focus: Share Your Story

[Balticfox]

Originally Posted by robw1959

For those among us whose collecting focus has shifted over the years, how and why has it shifted?

My collecting focus hasn't so much shifted over the years as expanded. Back in 1979 I set out to reacquire the cards and premium coins (Hockey, Baseball, CFL, Warship) I had during my childhood collecting years of 1959 to 1965. When I started to get close to completing those goals, I expanded my focus to those cards of which I was aware but didn't actively collect as a kid for financial or other reasons. For example, I collected the 1962 Shirriff Baseball coins as a kid:



But after after acquiring a set, I branched out into collecting all the metal Baseball coins including these 1963 Salada ones:



And now that I've acquired all the Canadian 1962 Post Baseball cards but the super tough short prints:



I've started to peck away at the American 1962 Post Baseball cards as well:



And of course I've stretched out in both directions beyond my collecting years as a kid (though more back in time) to basically any cards from about 1950 to 1972 that I think look neat, e.g. 1954 and 1955 Topps Baseball.