How does a new seller get into ANY major card show these days?

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It would be absolutely wonderful to have an annual show for vintage material. I wouldn't personally want it restricted to Pre-War, though. Pre-Junk Era would open it up nice and wide and should also make it easier to enlarge it beyond those few tables at the small Virginia event that happened. I think the vast majority here aren't exclusively Pre-War but would venture that most don't dabble in the shiny junk. If a great and successful vintage-only show were to actually happen, it can't afford to be Pre-War elitist. That's just bad business.

Keep corporate and breaker areas with their noisy racket far away, please.

I'd definitely like to see more than 10 dealers or however many were in VA. Let's say 100 dealers, but the more the merrier provided the above parameters are implemented. Lots of venues available everywhere for something of that size. The last National had just over 350 dealers, so something a third of that size would be perfect.

Another interesting strategy would be giving priority to those on other shows' waiting lists, or true first-timers. We're all tired of the stale inventories at other shows.