Modern today, vintage tomorrow

[packs]

Cards like this have been around for quite a while now. It seems like they all still sell. All of the old Score Mantle cards sell; the Upper Deck Ted Williams, Reggie and Nolan Ryan cards sell; the Pinnacle Joe D cards sell.

Not a new thing and I think the past makes it clear that people will collect newer cards of their favorite players because it's their favorite player on the card.

[bnorth]

Is there a site that tracks 1/1s? There is one for almost everything else. I would be curious to know how many Wade Boggs have been made. They make way more cards of him now than when he was playing. I would imagine that is true of most top of the food chain players.

[Exhibitman]

Tomorrow is today. When I set up at shows, I find that younger collectors think of 1980s-1990s cards as vintage. Last show I did, two guys were looking for "old school" players from the 1980s-1990s. I get a similar reaction at least a few times a show now.

So much of it is perspective. I think of anything made after 1980 as modern and anything made after 1989 as shiny crap, but that doesn't hold for someone who hasn't been collecting for 50 years. I found a gorgeous 86 Donruss Canseco at a small card show yesterday for two bucks, in a seller's vintage box. I vividly recall when that card was the absolute bomb, during that 40-40 season. I never had one at the time--too expensive on a law student budget. I had to pick it up.