New member intro

[clydepepper]

Welcome aboard.

There are indeed members interested in cards from the time frame you mentioned. Everyone I have dealt with have been upstanding, honest guys who share their vast knowledge on virtually every card ever produced. You in safe hands here.

Have fun and take an extended look around the 'property' to see all it provides.

Again, welcome to Net54,

Raymond

[trdcrdkid]

Mesquite --

Welcome! I'm a relative newcomer here myself (joined in February), and I don't spend much time in the post-war forums, but there's plenty of activity there (especially the 1945-1980 one), and I'm sure you'll be welcomed with open arms.

I'm a few years older than you (my childhood collecting years were 1976-82), but I also got back into it in 1991. I did buy a wax box of Topps and collect the set that year just for kicks, but I soon focused on older cards, which I had already started to get into in my early teens. I now have a couple of thousand pre-war tobacco and caramel cards (baseball and nonsport) and several thousand advertising trade cards from the late 19th century. About 10-15 years ago I decided to collect cards from the decade between when I was born (1966) and when I started collecting, because those were the bulk of the older cards that circulated when I was a kid. I now have complete Topps sets from 1968 (my favorite as a kid), 1974, and 1975, and near-sets of the other years from 1967-76. I also got the Topps sets from 1983-90 and some Fleer and Donruss sets from those years, but of course cards from that era are crazy plentiful and not worth much.

[swarmee]

http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=201410

You may be interested in this club, at the thread above.

[Mesquite]

Thanks for the warm welcome, and for the pointers to the other discussion areas.

PS I can't seem to find any forum limits on posted photo sizes or maximum number of photos per post. Are there any limits like that?

[begsu1013]

welcome mesquite! fairly new here as well. i mainly post to the post war forum as that is what i mainly collect as well...1951 - 79, but check in over here at the pre war forum every once in a while as there are some good threads here and the wealth of knowledge here is absolutely incredible...
freedom of speech is also more tolerated on this board vs some of the others.

not sure on the max size and limits of posting pics, but post away...

there's usually a monthly "pick ups" thread in both forums that is fun to peruse and certainly helps the wallet get a little lighter each month...

[trdcrdkid]

If you upload photos to the site to use in a post, there are size limits, which you can see with the "Manage Attachments" button at the bottom of the "Reply to Topic" page. I've found that using an external photo-hosting site (in my case Photobucket) allows for more flexibility and much higher size limits for photos.

[Mesquite]

Is there a particular format to follow (or special forum to post to) if I want pointers on determining the grade of a card?

For example, I've got nine of the 1970 Don Sutton #622 card, and I thought it might be instructive to understand how and why the grade varies on 9 versions of an otherwise identical card, especially relative to centering and degree of softness of the corners.