Show A Card You've Owned For 30+ Years

[ramram]

So Ted, although most of us collect prewar, I’m guessing you are likely our only actual prewar collector (meaning born pre war)?

Rob M

[ullmandds]

Originally Posted by ramram

So Ted, although most of us collect prewar, I’m guessing you are likely our only actual prewar collector (meaning born pre war)?

Rob M

franks pretty old too!!!

[clydepepper]

Well, if it's true that you're as young as you feel, then the converse should also be accurate...and with my joints and another thunderstorms coming in right now, I confirm that I'm as old as I feel...and older than a few wars my own self.

The only cards I've been able to hold onto even close to thirty years are the 1992 Little League cards of my two nephews.



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[tedzan]

Originally Posted by ramram

So Ted, although most of us collect prewar, I’m guessing you are likely our only actual prewar collector (meaning born pre war)?

Rob M

WWII actually started September 1, 1939, when Germany invaded Poland. So, you are correct, Rob M.

I was born November 5, 1938.


TED Z

T206 Reference
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[atx840]

Father picked this out of a pack when he was 9, he grew up in southern Ontario and supposedly had access to a higher amount of high card packs. He gave it to me the day I was born.

[irv]

Originally Posted by atx840

Father picked this out of a pack when he was 9, he grew up in southern Ontario and supposedly had access to a higher amount of high card packs. He gave it to me the day I was born.

Where abouts in southern Ontario, ATX?

My father was born and raised in the Tweed/Actinolite area of southern Ontario and in and around that area is where is got his 52 Topps cards.

[atx840]

Originally Posted by irv

Where abouts in southern Ontario, ATX?

My father was born and raised in the Tweed/Actinolite area of southern Ontario and in and around that area is where is got his 52 Topps cards.

A little town called Listowel. Actually not too far from Tweed.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Li...8gEwC3oECA0QBA

[Huysmans]

Originally Posted by atx840

A little town called Listowel. Actually not too far from Tweed.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Li...8gEwC3oECA0QBA

Hey Chris,

Listowel is special to me due to it being the place Cyclone Taylor grew up and first learned to play hockey. Are there any kinds of shrines there to him? Is the home he was raised in known and does it still exist? If there's any traces left of his existence there... I'd love to visit.


Brent

[JohnP0621]

[QUOTE=atx840;1878420]Father picked this out of a pack when he was 9, he grew up in southern Ontario and supposedly had access to a higher amount of high card packs. He gave it to me the day I was born.


That is a beauty !

[irv]

Originally Posted by atx840

A little town called Listowel. Actually not too far from Tweed.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Li...8gEwC3oECA0QBA

Further away than I thought it was but I guess it proves a lot of these high number cards were available in Canada also or maybe even mainly?

[brian1961]

Originally Posted by atx840

Father picked this out of a pack when he was 9, he grew up in southern Ontario and supposedly had access to a higher amount of high card packs. He gave it to me the day I was born.

Thanks for sharing your card and your beautiful story, Chris. To PSA it looked like a 3, but with those off-the-chart colors and extra crisp picture registry, you and I would call it a 12, which means priceless!!!! --- Brian Powell

[MVSNYC]

A Chris Browne sighting?

CB- shoot me a PM, long time, no speak...Hope you're well, my friend.

[gabrinus]

Bought this from Mr. Delong back in 1982 for $20...Jerry

[Baseballcrazy62]

Highest graded white back in the registry. Picked it up in 1975.F638784B-36D4-434F-93E0-BA5B26CD4800.jpg

[frohme]

While I may still have a few cards left from my childhood collecting days (75-78), they're likely well loved and packed away... somewhere. They've certainly never seen the light of a scanner, and probably never will. Grover Cleveland was picked up in London in 1980 on a high school trip, if I remember correctly. He's been hanging out all this time, waiting patiently ...

My longest-held T206 and T207 clock in at 29 and 28 years respectively.

Great stories and cards, everyone!

--
Mike

[dabigyankeeman]

Had this since 1979, the first card in my collection, given to me by a friend. This started it all for me. I will never upgrade this card, it has such meaning to me as the start of my collection!!!