Moms and Cards

[yanks4]

I am seventy years old now and had collected 1961 and 1962 Topps... with some Three Stooges, Phoney Ads, Ted Williams Fleer (which I disliked then). I was also given shoeboxes full of cards from the the 50s from neighbors who had older boys....I can still see them in my mind 57 Mantles etc. etc.....They just disappeared except for the Yankees I had scotched taped to a booklet I made with a Yankee photo pack that I had sent away for ...I still have them all with of course paperloss from the tape...She did save the 4 Hartland Statues my brother and I had Mantle, Mays, Fox and Banks which are in great shape..along with pieces of my Alamo set..and Blue and Grey Confederate plastic soldiers. Little League uniform is long gone. I still have my dads stamp collection from the 20s...among a few of his other toys. I wonder if he collected Goudeys? I remember my mom saying to me in the mid 60s that a Mantle card sold for $35 and she was astounded!!

[ValKehl]

As a youth, I collected from 1955-1960. In the mid 1970's, when I was married with 4 rug rats, Mom called one day to inform that she and Dad had come across my cards while cleaning out their storage area. Thankfully, Mom asked if I wanted them, or if should she trash them. Thinking that at least 1 of my 3 boys might collect cards when they got older, I asked Mom to save them for me to pick up the next time I visited. None of my boys got interested in collecting, but I started collecting again in the mid-late 1980's and have been at it ever since.

[robw1959]

Originally Posted by yanks4

I am seventy years old now and had collected 1961 and 1962 Topps... with some Three Stooges, Phoney Ads, Ted Williams Fleer (which I disliked then). I was also given shoeboxes full of cards from the the 50s from neighbors who had older boys....I can still see them in my mind 57 Mantles etc. etc.....They just disappeared except for the Yankees I had scotched taped to a booklet I made with a Yankee photo pack that I had sent away for ...I still have them all with of course paperloss from the tape...She did save the 4 Hartland Statues my brother and I had Mantle, Mays, Fox and Banks which are in great shape..along with pieces of my Alamo set..and Blue and Grey Confederate plastic soldiers. Little League uniform is long gone. I still have my dads stamp collection from the 20s...among a few of his other toys. I wonder if he collected Goudeys? I remember my mom saying to me in the mid 60s that a Mantle card sold for $35 and she was astounded!!

That $35 Mantle card was likely a '52 Topps issue. I remember how you could buy the '50 Mantles all day long in the mid-70s for around $10 at the most (and that was for a ''53 Topps). By the mid-70s, the '52 Topps Mantle had crept all the way up to around $150 in price.