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Best Set for Someone On A Budget
Posted By: ted
One of my buddies is kind of on the fence about getting into vintage cards. He, like me, is young and spent his childhood collecting contemporary cards in the mid-80's to early 90's. Unlike me however, he has not really started any collections. As i have mentioned before, I have completed an Aaron collection with my father and now I myself am concentrating on Koufax/T206/and BlackSox cards while he is into Goudey's and Diamond Stars. Although i know this board is dedicated to cards from a particular era, where do you think i should direct him. He's a big cubbies fan, and seems that he is more interested in collecting pieces that interest him rather than cards in a particular condition. In otherwords, he would much rather have a PSA 1 T206 Evers (50 bucks) than a Gem Mint 10 1956 Walt Dropo (1,500). I don't know that he wants to build an entire set, so maybe low grade t206 is still a good way for him to go, but any thoughts or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Once again, the focus of the board is on early 1900's, but if you guys think he would do well with 1950's era, i'd like that mentioned. He is a big Cubbies fan, so maybe he's just get into collecting anything Cubs, but i think that is a little to wide open. |
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Best Set for Someone On A Budget
Posted By: David Vargha
Try e95's. It's a small set (25), relatively inexpensive, and has something like 9 or 10 HOF'ers in it. |
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Best Set for Someone On A Budget
Posted By: Anonymous
would be the e90-3s, has the cubs and white sox covered. You won't see them come up that often so your friend will have plenty of time to save up for the next card, f-g condition is around $100. Best of luck to your friend, my first cards was a pack of 1989 Donruss and Topps so I know what it's like to collect in those boom time (hey the gum in those packs was well worth it!) |
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Best Set for Someone On A Budget
Posted By: ted
So you guys would definitely stick with turn of the century rather than delving into something from the 30's, 40's or 50's? |
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Best Set for Someone On A Budget
Posted By: Gilbert Maines
Id recommend a Cubs only set starting with the Goudeys because the Cubs were a powerhouse in the thirties with Hartnett, Herman, Hack, Klein, Lindstrom, Cuyler, Stephenson, etc. Quite an exciting team at its 20th Century prewar peak. |
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Best Set for Someone On A Budget
Posted By: Paul
1929 R316 Kashin Publications would be an inexpensive set that has great photos & stars. |
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Best Set for Someone On A Budget
Posted By: Jay Miller
I think a set that is underappreciated that is challenging, has great pictures, has alot of HOFers, and is still relatively inexpensive is the M101-6 Sporting News set. I have collected this in the past, although I do not now. |
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Best Set for Someone On A Budget
Posted By: Jeff Britton
Try the 1936 S&S GAme card set .. Small set size(52 cards) Loads of Stars If one is patient you could build a nice NM/MT set for around $3000. |
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Best Set for Someone On A Budget
Posted By: Marc S.
Ted: |
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Best Set for Someone On A Budget
Posted By: David Vargha
At the risk of going too far from the board's theme, a good 50's set that meets your parameters is 1954 Red Heart. It has 33 cards, 11 of which are HOF'ers. A nice looking set can be acquired for $2-3K and the only expensive cards are Mantle and Musial. |
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Best Set for Someone On A Budget
Posted By: warshawlaw
relatively speaking, true bargains. once you get past ruth-gehrig-cobb the regular issue, non-rarity cards rarely cross the $100 mark even in decent shape. postwar cards are readily available at $5-10 each in nice shape. |
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Best Set for Someone On A Budget
Posted By: ted
I was thinking about suggesting the Goudey's b/c he could get decent condition cards for a pretty decent price and really concentrate on Cubbies... the nice thing about that set as well as, let's say a 56 Topps or Bowman, is that the cards are relatively easy to find. If he sticks with unslabbed cards, the prices could be very reasonable. It's a very tough decision for him i'm sure. At the end of the day I can't imagine that he would want to spend more than $1,000 to $2,000 on what he wants. And as he's not as dedicated to collecting as any of us, it might serve him better to stick with something that is fairly easy to find. |
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Best Set for Someone On A Budget
Posted By: Scott Forrest
t206 and '33/'34 Goudeys. The budget-minded can buy these in larger lots and re-sell the ones they don't want, thus keeping costs down. |
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Best Set for Someone On A Budget
Posted By: dan mckee
1987 Topps |
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Best Set for Someone On A Budget
Posted By: Judge Dred
The T201 set has only 50 cards and the cards are relatively inexpensive when compared to the T and E cards. The set is from the early 20th century (around the same time as the T206 set) so it would be from a nice era. Cobb is in the set as well as Johnson and Matty. Too bad Wagner wasn't in there. |
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Best Set for Someone On A Budget
Posted By: Gilbert Maines
One advantage of Warshawlaw's suggestion is that the Exhibit cards were issued from the twenties through the sixties - in roughly the same format. So, one could consider these all one set covering 40 years or so, because they all look alike. |
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Best Set for Someone On A Budget
Posted By: Greg Ecklund
The Exhibit and 1933/34 Goudey suggestions are good ones. |
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Best Set for Someone On A Budget
Posted By: Adam J. Moraine
1988 Donruss or 1990 Donruss (LOL) |
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Best Set for Someone On A Budget
Posted By: Bill Kasel
I've found the E95's to be a good set to start with if you have a limited budget. The Cobb and Wagner will set you back $400+ each for fair examples but the rest (including Matty, Plank, Crawford, Evers, etc.) that are HOF'er are reasonable. The non-stars are very affordable. I only ask that he start once I'm done! |
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Best Set for Someone On A Budget
Posted By: Bob C
Tuesday May 3, 06:56 PM |
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Best Set for Someone On A Budget
Posted By: davidcycleback
1950s-70s Odd Balls has a lot of neat stuff, ranging from the 1954 Red Heart (another's pick but worth seconding) to Topps test issues to the 1970s Kellogs 3-D cards. A lot of these issues have star players' rookie cards and pre-rookie cards, and most issues are rarer than the regular Topps cards. |
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Best Set for Someone On A Budget
Posted By: warshawlaw
isn't that what the old chicken commercial said? |
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Best Set for Someone On A Budget
Posted By: RayB
It may take a lifetime but one can embed themselves in a wave of tabacco card history by just pecking away at low and mid grade T-206's. There is so much ther to love. Even if one is afraid of venturing into this on the raw card end due to issues of altering, trimming and fakery, these cards also look great in slabs. |
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Best Set for Someone On A Budget
Posted By: Julie
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Best Set for Someone On A Budget
Posted By: David Vargha
Those 53 Bowmans were thirty years ahead of their time, so they're not just post-war, they're modern! |
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Best Set for Someone On A Budget
Posted By: ted
Thanks everyone for the thoughts...keep em coming |
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Best Set for Someone On A Budget
Posted By: Rob L
T201. Has Cubs HOFers also. |
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Best Set for Someone On A Budget
Posted By: dennis
if he's looking for a 1950's set,i would suggest the 1956 topps set. all the big stars(-musial)are represented.no really high dollar cards,big supply of mid grade raw cards are out there,no high # scarcities,last of the over-sized cards,great stadium scenes and portrait on cards,great backs and you don't need tons of $$$ to complete. |
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Best Set for Someone On A Budget
Posted By: Mark
Collecting's about personal choice. I myself can't decide where to drop my next $6k myself - 1887 Bid McPhee or 2005 Pope John Paul II auto card: |
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