How many different cards do you own?

[Casey2296]

Originally Posted by mrreality68

22 with a goal to get to 25 by years end

Knowing your collection Jeff best wishes on your goal by the end of the year.

[Foo3112]

I currently own 12 PSA graded cards. I am very specific as to what I collect. I use to own a lot more but decided to sell many over the years in order to get that one card I wanted instead (at that moment).

As for PSA/DNA, perhaps around 30.

Then I have quite a bit of raw cards stored in boxes and about another 2K signed by players and sitting on card savers.

[jchcollins]

Maybe slightly off-topic, but related -

Would you rather have a smaller collection of more valuable cards? Or a larger collection (whatever is "large" to you is open to interpretation...) of cards with a lower average value?

I lean towards postwar vintage because I like getting a mid grade HOF'er for the same price as it would cost me to get a beater T206 common or other prewar card. I like the idea of prewar, but the value proposition simply isn't there for me, or wasn't in 2014 or so when I got back into the hobby and set goals this go-round.

I have my limits. Here lately it seems I would rather have fifteen $100 cards than one $1500 card...but I have also sold things in the past to do the opposite.

[Smarti5051]

I have about 35-50K different cards, but the vast majority of them add up to about $20 in total value (if I could find a local guy with a van and bad judgment).

And, to answer the other question posed, I would desperately love to have a few PC cards rather than the motley crew of childhood bad judgment that currently resides in the garage. My life goal is to trade away what I have for a few binders of great vintage GOATs.

[jchcollins]

Originally Posted by Smarti5051

I would desperately love to have a few PC cards rather than the motley crew of childhood bad judgment that currently resides in the garage.

LOL, nice way to put it. I still smile on the Gregg Jefferies and Todd Van Poppel cards that I occasionally run across in my collection. Those dudes were supposed to have made me a retiree by now...

[Vintage Vern]

With all these cards people have I still can't pry 1 Vern Clemons card from anyone here.

[Wanaselja]

67

[mrreality68]

Originally Posted by Casey2296

Knowing your collection Jeff best wishes on your goal by the end of the year.

Thanks Phil

I just do not know if this is a realistic or stretch goal.

[rugbymarine]

~150 cards

[Casey2296]

Originally Posted by rugbymarine

~150 cards

All centered...

[Exhibitman]

I have no friggin' idea, except that my worldwide boxing type card collection is well over 1,000 unique type cards and covers dozens of countries and every continent except Antarctica.

[birdman42]

Up through '41 Play Ball, 295 counting everything--cards, pins, blankets, etc. After that, maybe a couple thousand Washington 42-71. Currently putting together a '53 set on the cheap.

Bill

[familytoad]

Prewar baseball =1600 in sets. A few hundred singles for which I’m not collecting the set.
Postwar baseball =17,500
Postwar football = 5600
Postwar hockey = 1000

1971 Topps FB = 14,000+ (not counting in totals above)

So about 24,000 unique vintage cards.
I don’t have as much junk wax left. Bad judgment cards =10,000 down from 10x that amount.