before cards were investment vehicles

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Posted By: warshawlaw

Many of my vintage cards (postwar version) were given to me by family friends with adult kids who found out I collected and just handed boxes to me. When they got a little more known I started buying collections but the prices were obscenely low. I used to buy cards at an antique store with a box of 1950s-70s cards at 14 for a buck. In 1981 I bought an entire grocery bag full of late 60s cards from my science teacher for $25.

Prewar cards cost more: it set me back a whole ten or twelve bucks (I forget which) for my T206 Johnson ready to pitch; still have it.