What was your first pre-war purchase?

[Chuck9788]

It was a 1909 T206 Buck Herzog with pair loss on the back. The card still makes me smile.

[frohme]

First pre-war purchase, 30+ years ago, at a regional show (St Louis). 8 years before joining eBay. Its the only pre-war Pirate I held onto.

[Bliggity]

Great thread. I started getting back into cards around spring 2014. Bought a nice '54 Bowman Mantle that summer, which was by far the most I'd ever spent on a card. I had a little familiarity with vintage, but knew almost nothing about prewar. It seemed like a steep learning curve. Then I went to the Raleigh show in December 2014 and saw this T205 Mathewson in a dealer's case. It was love at first sight. I slept on it that night, and went back and bought it the next day for $325. It was in a SGC 30/2 holder at the time, and I cracked it and sent it to PSA where it (rightly) upgraded. Still have it front and center in my display case.

[steve B]

Well, it may not be much help, but here it is.

The shop In the town I'd just moved to had T206 comons for 1.50 each. I really liked them, but hadn't bought any.

Then the guys at the shop said they'd held one aside for me.
ANd it was only 20 cents! Of course, it was also heavily creased, torn, taped to keep it in one piece... but it was mine! If I'd only known where that would lead....

[1880nonsports]

90's

Richard Galasso SCD adv. I bought an N43 baseball card in VG/X

fast forward and I need but Edwards the boxer to complete a nice graded set......

[nooner10]

Bought these two in the same transaction a few years ago. No longer have the Gehrig, though.

[laserbeemer]

In 1976 I was 11 years old. Took my paper route money and was going to buy a 1953 Paige from an older kid in the neighborhood. He had 2nd thoughts and instead gave me a T206 Mathewson portrait and a 62 Musial for $30 total. That was a ton of money for me at 11, but got me hooked.

[mrreality68]

This may sound odd especially since I am a Ruth, Jackson collector primarily.

But my first pickups were Raw T206 and T205 Cards. At the time walked into a Great little Card store on Long Island and he had alot of T205 and T206 Cards that were on display and Raw. Many HOFers and at reasonable prices. So I picked up a few of each. Expanded to non HOFers and was working on each set but was to many players, add backs (prior to me appreciating Ad backs like my Joe Jackson Ad Backs), and so on.
I also picked up a Cap Anson because he was the first Truly Famous player to me (no knock on others) and I wanted a card from the 1800's.
Also even though prices were reasonable the more I bought the more my money was tied up. So when my dream card a 1909 Joe Jackson became available I did not have funds and realized how much I had tied up in the cards.

All since sold to support my Ruth and Jackson addictions

[kmac32]

1922 E121-120 Elmer Miller card at the 1989 National in Chicago. He was my great great Uncle

I don't remember which one was first, but these were purchased at Lambertville NJ Flea Market @ 1979 or 1980, Barkley was $20 and Young $16

[theshowandme]

Originally Posted by nooner10

Bought these two in the same transaction a few years ago. No longer have the Gehrig, though.

I prefer the bat off to the bat on.

Great cards!

[oldjudge]

My first pre-war card was a Mayo football card that I bought in the late-1980s.