Starting out in vintage football

[sockwell123]

Best of luck with your collecting!

Jeff - Looks like you're fixing to need another cabinet to hold more binders. Very nice sir.

[Beansballcardblog]

Welcome to the world of vintage football. I just got into it this year myself. I'm working to complete the 1955 All-American set. Once I get it completed, I will work to upgrade. A lot of the ones I have are very low grade. I have my set scanned into a flickr folder, so if I'm at a show or shop, I can take a quick look online at my set and figure out if I need an upgrade.

It's the first vintage set I've tried to put together. Honestly, it may be the only one I ever do, as the others I'd really be interested in are well out of my price range.

At the end of the day, it's all about fun!

[vintagebaseballcardguy]

Originally Posted by wvu_class_of_2001

Welcome to the world of vintage football. I just got into it this year myself. I'm working to complete the 1955 All-American set. Once I get it completed, I will work to upgrade. A lot of the ones I have are very low grade. I have my set scanned into a flickr folder, so if I'm at a show or shop, I can take a quick look online at my set and figure out if I need an upgrade.

It's the first vintage set I've tried to put together. Honestly, it may be the only one I ever do, as the others I'd really be interested in are well out of my price range.

At the end of the day, it's all about fun!

That '55 Topps AA is a really great set. That is one that I wouldn't mind building. However, I am having trouble deciding where I want to start. I am thinking about (in no particular order):

1. '55 Topps All-American
2. '52 Bowman (probably small--really like the color and team logos)
3. '64 Philly (very affordable, plain design but I like it)
4. '61 Fleer (I really like those Fleer designs...especially the team logos)
5. '56 Topps
6. '68 Topps

I also am intrigued by '57 and '58 Topps.

I am new to this and am overwhelmed because so many of the sets are so doable. I know I just need to get in somewhere and go. You guys make all of them look so appealing. I could build most of the 60s stuff (not '65) in pretty high grade. Even some of the '50s stuff I could do decent mid-grade.

Somebody focus me, please!

[jefferyepayne]

What I did when starting to work on completing the mainstream sets was watch on ebay for reasonable larger lots of cards from one of the sets I was interested in and, if I happened to win one for a good price, I figured that was an omen and I'd work to finish it before moving on to another.

You might do that same thing as a way to decide what to work on first from the list you came up with!

jeff

[Beansballcardblog]

Originally Posted by jefferyepayne

What I did when starting to work on completing the mainstream sets was watch on ebay for reasonable larger lots of cards from one of the sets I was interested in and, if I happened to win one for a good price, I figured that was an omen and I'd work to finish it before moving on to another.

You might do that same thing as a way to decide what to work on first from the list you came up with!

jeff

I definitely agree there. That's what got me started (for the second time) on my All-American set.

[jefferyepayne]

Originally Posted by sockwell123

Jeff - Looks like you're fixing to need another cabinet to hold more binders. Very nice sir.

Yeah, but a little late ;-) Need another cabinet ASAP!



jeff