Which Card Sparked Your Pre-War Addiction?

[T206Collector]

My first T206 -- purchased in 1997 from a guy selling portions of his grandfather's collection to fund a trip to Vegas....

From SGC Graded Cards

My first signed T206 -- purchased in April 2004 on ebay, along with a collection of 3 other signed T206 Marquards. Thus began my signed T206 card mission....

From Autographed T206

[fkm_bky]

T206 Chance Red Portrait with Polar Bear reverse...in terrible condition.

Bill

[uffda51]

My first N172, purchased from a store, All-Star Cards in Van Nuys, run by Eric Cooper & David Hamilton, in about 1982. $30.

[sgbernard]

I bought a VG T206 Jack Bliss with a piedmont back at a baseball card store above a gas station (I think it was "Baseball Attic" or "Card Attic") in Chapel Hill in 1991. That did it. Store is long gone, I'm afraid, but I still have the card (just not a scan).

[Dan Carson]

My first Pre WWII card I bought in 1990. It was a 1921 Lefty O'Doul Zeenut and my second was a 1922 Lazzeri Zeenut.

[36GoudeyMan]

My first pre-war card, got me hooked, was a Jim Thorpe Sports Kings card. I bought it at a show in Richmond in God knows what year (88? 89? 86?), and that was it.. from there it was Diamond Stars, 36 Goudeys, etc., then non-sports, especially G-Men, which I thought for the longest time were impossible to find in better than G-VG (I know better now, but at a price).....