what is YOUR collecting style? Your 5 favorite sets?

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Posted By: Steve Dawson

after lurking for the past 3-4 months, so let me introduce myself. I'm 41 and have been in the US Air Force for the past 19 1/2 years. I'm originally from San Diego CA, and have been collecting baseball and football cards since the mid 1970's. The first non-current set I ever began collecting was T206, back in 1979. By the mid-1980s, I had every card of all the HOFers in T206, with the exception of Wagner and Plank, and of course Vic Willis and George Davis since they weren't yet in the HOF. I also had some other HOFer cards, including N28s of Clarkson, Kelly and Keefe, an N162 and N172 Kelly, a T227 Cobb, a T3 Johnson and an E90-2 Wagner. I sold nearly all my cards in 1991 to buy a car and furnish an apartment upon returning to the states after spending 2 years stationed in Germany.

I've gotten back into the pre-WWII cards within the past year, and have all but 7 of the T206 HOFers, all PSA graded 3/4. I'm also collecting PSA 4 T205 (missing 8), T207 (still need 6) and PSA 3/4 1933/34 Goudey HOFers, and am beginning to get the bug to shoot for a set of T3 HOFers. I'm also on the lookout for nice (PSA/SGC 2-3) 19th Century HOFers, along with E90-1 HOFers.

My Top-5 favorite sets are (in order):

1. T3 (IMO the most beautiful cards ever produced)
2. T202
3. N162
4. T205
5. N28/N29/N43

Anyway, I've really enjoyed reading the posts here, and I look forward to participating more in the future.

Steve