How many of us are there?

[wonkaticket]

Depends on what you call a vintage collector, if you're counting card collectors who also enjoy the occasional T206 or 1933 Goudey amongst his or her 50's 60's shiny stuff I would agree on the 20k number.

If you are talking folks who really on have his or her wheel house in pre-war I would tend to agree with Leon you're talking way less than 20k...

John

[hunterdutchess]

I guess 90% resellers and 10% collectors. Most of the items I sell are listed a week later for a higher bin price. Makes me wonder if only collectors were bidding, I bet we would see a 50%+ price dip.

[carrigansghost]

I know of only 3 prewar collectors residing in Maine.

Rawn

[sportscardpete]

I think New York has a pretty nice population of collectors. Haven't met them personallty but there are soo many people here there's bound to be a few!

[Matthew H]

Leon, if you're not going to count dealer/collectors then the number may be less then ten.

[BleedinBlue]

This thread from late 2009 estimated the number of "complete" T206 sets at around 1k.

http://www.net54baseball.com/showthr...ight=t206+sets

I doubt that 1 in every 3 pre-war collector has a complete T206 set. I think the number of collectors is higher and the 20k number wouldn't surprise me a bit. I also think the number of "complete" T206 sets is lower but that's for another thread.

[e107collector]

I would say around 10-12k. REA usually sends out around 10K catalogs each year. I would have to say a high % of those bidders are vintage card collectors.

Just my guess.

Tony

[T206Collector]

Originally Posted by wonkaticket

Depends on what you call a vintage collector, if you're counting card collectors who also enjoy the occasional T206 or 1933 Goudey amongst his or her 50's 60's shiny stuff I would agree on the 20k number.

If you are talking folks who really on have his or her wheel house in pre-war I would tend to agree with Leon you're talking way less than 20k...

John

+1

[joeadcock]

I think I'm alone out here. Cant find a one.

Asked at Flea Markets about Prewar cards and the usual answer is "NO" or "wish I did".

One guy who works in my field, I asked him and he said "you gotta have money for those", says he collects only mantle era cards.

[tbob]

What's always been amazing to me is not that there aren't more prewar card collectors in my home state of Arkansas- (3 to my knowledge in the whole state, Mike in Hot Springs, Jerry in Van Buren and myself in Fort Smith) but that there is such a scarcity of prewar collectors in neighboring states, like Oklahoma with cities like Tulsa and Oklahoma City. I know of Kenny Cole and I apologize if I am missing someone else, but you would think there would be some card shops with prewar and a lot more collectors in the area.
(I know there are a couple of ebay sellers who sell prewar cards but are not prewar collectors per se).

[triwak]

Bob, I live in Springfield, MO, and there are ZERO vintage card shops up here. Once, a postwar shop tried to start dabbling in prewar, but it didn't work out. He is now closed. Perhaps, because he was asking ~ $700 for T206 commons???

[Kenny Cole]

There are still a few shops in the OKC and Norman area that claim to have pre-war. It's pretty sparse though. I haven't talked to him in a while, but as far as I know, Roger Neufeldt is still in Norman, although he had closed his shop and was mainly doing mail order, eBay and shows. I used to stop by his warehouse every once in a while when he was in town (which wasn't often). He always had some pretty nice pre-war stuff. I imagine he still does. That's about it around here though.

Kenny Cole

[deadballera]

no pre-war shops in Sacramento.

I know of a few collectors in the area...and some just Sacramento PCL items only.