How many have gone from collecting new cards to collecting vintage?

[topcat61]

I started out collecting new cards when I was a kid. And what I mean by new cards is 1980's. Anyway, that changed during the 1994 Baseball Strike and I went completely towards vintage afterwards. I was making that transition anyway, but the Strike was the final nail in the coffin for me.

[steve B]

I'm so slow and unfocused that I've gone from collecting new cards to vintage, and it's the same sets

[riggs336]

Even though I began collecting new cards in 1953, I never owned a pre-war card until the 1970's when I traded a grocery bag of 1958 Topps dups for about 30 T cards, including a dozen or so T206 HOFers. I've often wondered who got the better end of that deal. Probably me. But there were a ton of Mays, Aaron and Clemente cards in that sack (I kept the Mantles).

[egri]

I started collecting in 2006, modern because I was 11 years old and those were the players I watched and looked up to. That year was the 60th anniversary of the 1946 Red Sox, so local news was full of stories about them. That got me into reading The Teammates, and from there I branched out into postwar. There weren't any cards from 1946, but my local card shop had 1949 Bowmans of Bobby Doerr and Sam Mele that I saved up for and eventually bought. When I got into autographs, I stuck with vintage because the old timers have better penmanship, and a lot of them were happy to be remembered 50-60 years after they retired. I'm also a big history nut, so there was that element as well.

[mrmopar]

I started with new cards, but developed a taste for older cards early on. Nothing major, as I was still just a pre-teen, but was picking up 50s stuff in the early 80s. When I discovered the internet, I did go after a lot of older and oddball stuff, but as the prices increased, my collecting of the older stuff slowed down as I was not able to continue affording it. I am glad I got what I did when I did, but woish I would have started earlier in earnest and gone after more than just personal favorites. For example, I liked Jim Palmer more than Seaver or Ryan.

I dabble in anything now if it catcvhes my eye, but unfortunately the vintage pick ups are fewer and further between these days. I did just get a T-205 Brooklyn card the other day though.