Where did you buy your first Pre-War Card ? Which card ?

[drc]

As a kid I ordered my first Pre-War card, a 1933 Goudey common, through the Larry Frisch catalog. Still have it.

[ecRich]

Around 1970-72 I got 1934 Goudey cards of Foxx and Dean ( $4 each) from the Wholesale Card Company catalog. I was thrilled that Gehrig was also on each card. I had also ordered the Ruth and Gehrig cards from the 1933-34 sets but they were out of those guys. I got the Ruth cards 2-5 years later for a much higher price of $25 each. I still have those first two cards and would not sell them for anything.

[tinkertoeverstochance]

I was 10, roanoke civic center show, spring 1996....picked up a t206 schmidt port in EX and a t206 wiltse pitching vg-ex for $10 per card.....still have both cards

[Dustanh1]

My first was a T206 George Hunter from the BST. Shortly thereafter I went to my local card shop and bought 2 raw Schulte T206's (that I still need to get graded). This was roughly 2 years ago, maybe a little longer. Before then I had been strictly modern. I sold the majority of my modern cards, and now I have 93 T206's including 2 Cobbs. Damn this is fun.

I remember my first National in Chicago in 1993. I was with my dad and we walked by countless tables full of vintage cards. I was looking for Ken Griffey Jr. singles. Griffey is still my favorite player, but how I wish I had paid attention to the pre-war cards then. Oh well.

[ChuckRoss]

Like board member Mark above, I bought my first vintage cards back in about 1971 from dealers in the back of the Sporting News. I believe my first card was a T206 Bender and I think it came from Stan Martucci, a dealer on Long Island (I lived in Virginia). A couple of years ago I found his old price list and I still remember that if I had had the money back in '71, he would have sold me all the Topps complete sets from 1954 to 1970 (in what he called A-1 condition) for a total of under $1000.

[birdman42]

My first prewar cards were a small batch of T206 Senators that I got from Wayne Miller, for about $4 each. He seemed to have an inexhaustible supply of those things.

Wayne had a small card concession in the coin and stamp shop I worked in at the time, so I saw him often, and had early pick on most of what he got in.

Bill