Your focus? Sets, Type Cards, or just plain Investments?

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Posted By: Dave Hornish

I'm a little of both (sets and type cards). I collect old Topps insert sets and some of the test/supplementnal issues from 1949-80 but on the really tough ones I usually just go for a type card as I don't see spending 20K on a 3D of Roberto Clemente. I need about a dozen of the tougher ones at the moment for my Topps types (whittling it down slowly, but prices are really jacking up recently) and also a couple easy ones I'm just too lazy to pick up. I might take of the easy ones at a show in a few weeks.

I also collect T200-T217 type cards, plus the related silks, blankets etc with attention paid to the backs. Yes, I realize Leon has the only complete T card type run on the planet ..... Also doing Brooklyn teams sets of some issues, particularly T205 and T207 plus their Goudey, Play Ball, Topps and Bowman team sets thru 1957.

Decided to go for the whole T206 set (518 most likely, maybe 520)a few weeks ago and am picking those up now almost to the exclusion of everything else. I might also go for the T205 set as they are really growing on me the more I see them and possibly an early R card type run is in the future. The Monster's gonna kick my butt for a while until I get past the Top 30 or so and I'll probably delay soem projects until then.

Debating whether or not to sell some of the Topps supplemental partial sets I have not completed to fund the T206 collection. Still mulling that one over.....

Dave