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

[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