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

[wolfdogg]

I got a phone call from an uncle who had helped some friends clean out an old house. He found a small "foot locker" type box and opened it. He said that the box was full of old "stuff". In the bottom of the box there was an old baseball card. This was probably around 1983-early '84 (I was 12-13 yrs old). The card turned out to be a 1933 Goudey #206 Gus Suhr. Has back damage and some front damage from I guess bugs(????). I still have this card even though I have had 2 or 3 of the same card in better condition BUT I always keep this one......and probably always will.

[mikedenero]

I wish this wasn't the case, but I believe that my first prewar purchase was a '33 Goudey Danny McFayden PSA 3 on eBay about 7 years ago.

[HRBAKER]

First PWW1 was a T205 Eddie Collins won in a Richard Wolfers auction in 1993. First PWW2 was a 1939 Playball Gehringer from a Kevin Savage SCD as in 1991.

[brianp-beme]

My first Pre-WW2 cards came together in lumpy fashion. I was driven by my folks to a card show near LAX in 1981, and the first dealer inside (yes, I remember it was on the right side) had some beat up old cards in their case. I took them all for $11.00, pretty much all I had to spend. I ended up with:

T206 Mathewson Dark Cap
T206 Johnson pitching
E98 Cy Young
T205 Breshnahan
T205 Wheat (Broadleaf back)

All around Fair to F-G condition. These cards started me on the path to low-grade collecting bliss. I have never minded to swim amongst my fellow shark fodder in that mediocre stuff called water. I still have each card, and if I had to get rid of all my cards I have collected except one, I would hang onto the Matty.

Brian