How many cards total in your collection?

[ALBB]

1 to 10 cards ?.....wow , seems awfully small number for a collector

[Oscar_Stanage]

I voted 500-1000, but realistically I think the answer you are looking for is ~300.

I have 794 cards tracked and itemized individually. these range from a green cobb to a 1981 Topps Mike Kenn RC (football). When I got back into collecting I did not know the difference between a mint looking card and a PSA 9. So when I started looking at card values, I pulled out way too many cards into individual holders. I figured every card worth around $30 should be in its own holder. little did I know most were really worth $1.

This does not include the 1000s more I have in complete sets : 89 Fleer, donruss, topps, upper deck, every traded/update set from 82 - 89, etc...

[Snapolit1]

Part of the problem with my initial question/poll is that pre war seems way too restrictive. And vintage is way too subjective.

I assume people started using prewar terminology in the 70s. But that’s now 50 years ago.

Cards from the 1970s might be junk but they are now probably vintage.

Maybe some day pre war will be moved forward to mean Vietnam War. Who knows.

[Fred]

Originally Posted by Snapolit1

Part of the problem with my initial question/poll is that pre war seems way too restrictive. And vintage is way too subjective.

I assume people started using prewar terminology in the 70s. But that’s now 50 years ago.

Cards from the 1970s might be junk but they are now probably vintage.

Maybe some day pre war will be moved forward to mean Vietnam War. Who knows.

Damnit Steve, thanks for phucing up my day and making me feel like an old fart. Holy crap, I never really thought about "the 1970s" like that and then being reminded that's now 50 years ago.


Now I gotta go find that thread about what I'm going to do with my cards before I croak...

[timzcardz]

My prewar part is in the 50-100 range, but my Ripken collection alone is somewhere north of 3,500 cards.

Have about 15 1989 Fleer factory sets so there's about 10,000 right there. ( I got a good deal on them!)

All in I'd have to guess more than 50,000.

Now that I see that in writing, I realize that maybe I should thin the herd a little.

[Carter08]

Originally Posted by timzcardz

My prewar part is in the 50-100 range, but my Ripken collection alone is somewhere north of 3,500 cards.

Have about 15 1989 Fleer factory sets so there's about 10,000 right there. ( I got a good deal on them!)

All in I'd have to guess more than 50,000.

Now that I see that in writing, I realize that maybe I should thin the herd a little.

Any estimate about how many different Ripken cards that comes to without duplicates? That’s amazing.

[Frankish]

Like many others, pre-war is a much smaller number than total. Somewhere just under 100 seems right for 1930s and earlier.

A few years ago, I actually had my total collection under 100 cards, but then the pandemic hit and I had too much time on my hands and anxiety to relieve. And then I discovered Japanese baseball cards. And now my young son is also interested in baseball, so we collect RCs for Ohtani, Guerrero Jr, Wander Franco, et al. Now my collection is truly over the place:

Prewar: >100

1940s-70s American: ~350
1940s-60s Japanese: 2000+

New cards (with my son): ~150

[timzcardz]

Originally Posted by timzcardz

My prewar part is in the 50-100 range, but my Ripken collection alone is somewhere north of 3,500 cards.

Have about 15 1989 Fleer factory sets so there's about 10,000 right there. ( I got a good deal on them!)

All in I'd have to guess more than 50,000.

Now that I see that in writing, I realize that maybe I should thin the herd a little.

Originally Posted by Carter08

Any estimate about how many different Ripken cards that comes to without duplicates? That’s amazing.

The 3,500+ Ripkens is not counting duplicates. Not sure of the exact number. I need to find the time to get better organized.

The most recent milestone for my Ripken Collection was completion of the 100 card 2007 SPX Iron Man insert set whose cards are individually numbered to 699.

[Bliggity]

I knew I was somewhere near 500, so I did a quick inventory -

N-cards (7)
T3 (9)
T200 (4)
T205 (112)
T207 (22)
T209 (16)
E90-1 (6)
E92 family (68)
M101-2 (66)
1915 CJ (6)
E121 (33)
R310 (7)
1934 Goudey (38)
1953 Bowman (209)
Other (20)

Looks like I'm at 623. Can you tell I'm a spread-too-thin set collector?

[frankbmd]

Recalculating

[Hirbonzig]

Pre war I have 157, but post war including junk wax era the stacks are too tall to count.

[brianclat11]

I'm in the same boat as a lot of folks with well over 1k cards. Many of these are from from my younger collecting days(70's & 80's). I have around 40 pre-war cards. Mostly T206 HOF.

[Leon]

An interesting poll, with reference to this board, would be to make the poll be for cards from 1945 and earlier. I still have over 1000 but I am sure many don't when they don't add in their post war stuff.

I probably have less than 10 post war cards. I wouldn't count this one in that poll.
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