if you started collecting pre war in your 20's (not 1920's)

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Posted By: jpaol99

I am 22 and never really took a break from collecting once I started at 13. The issues I collected however did. I started with 60-80's cards and worked my way back. I have been mainly focusing on pre-20 issues since I was 18 or so. The set that really pulled me into vintage was the 1933 goudey set. The history of the players and even the look and feel of the cards themselves fascinated me. From there I have went into caramel, tobacco, and even some 19th century issues. Not only do I like to collect but I also look at my cards as a potential investment. Its not just throwing money into the wind like some hobbies.

Justin

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[esd10]

i started collecting in the late 80's and it was all about foil and rc that where massed produced and of course i bought in. i quite collecting in 95 befor the patch's and auto's where in packs and when i got back into cards i bought new cards and they just sucked so bad that i went on ebay and looked at what else baseball cards had to offer. i bought a t206 to see what they are about and started researching what other cards where around from the same period and they blew away anything that is made now of course i made mistakes paying a lot of money for a fake d304 but i know what im looking for now. Whats funny about when i collected cards during the late 80's through the early 90's was that the 33 goudey ruth was the first cards that where ever made but i was wrong but then to a 10 year old boy that was the pinnacle of cards.

[donmuth]

I started collecting pre-war by high school, if not middle school. I had started collecting 50's-60's stuff earlier... I purchased my first Mickey Mantle card from a Memphis area dealer when I was around 11-12 years old. I'm 35 now, so my pre-war phase probably started in the late 80's and ramped up through the early 90's. My first T206 was a Jeff Pfeffer from a school mate, but my second was a T206 Mordecai Brown Cubs chest that I bought at a local card show. I think I also got my first '33 Goudey in HS. In college I continued to buy some pre-war including a couple of T205s, one T207, many T206s, and some more '33 Goudeys.

Starting back then you could really only find pre-war at card shows. If I had had resources like Net54, eBay, etc. back when I started on pre-war then I might have a much larger collection today. There's been a ton of $18-25 T206s on the B/S/T boards lately and I would have grabbed those up back then in my buying sprees. Now, with kids and family and living on a Dave Ramsey budget, I'm much more cautious on how much I spend on cards. Still, I'm so glad my eyes were opened to old cards... if it weren't for them I would have surely been long gone from the hobby by now.

[2dueces]

You bring up old threads like this and Archive might get slapped with another law suit. Just saying.

[rdixon1208]

Originally Posted by 2dueces

You bring up old threads like this and Archive might get slapped with another law suit. Just saying.

That whole thing never stops being funny!

[Exhibitman]

I got my first prewar card that I can recall, a T206 Johnson, when I was 11 or 12 (I am 45) at a card show in Anaheim, California. I still have it. Cost me twelve bucks, which was quite a sum for me at the time. The first "old" card I can recall owning is a 1952 Topps Walt Dropo that I got probably when I was 7 or 8. Still have that too, and felt a bit of a twinge of sadness when I heard Mr. Dropo passed away recently.