Has anyone here bailed on their post-war cards to fund a pre-war collection?

[Leon]

I used to do the "rookie card HOF'er" thing. Then it didn't interest me any more and I sold them off (many 50's-60's) and have happily been a type card collector ever since....which is maybe 10 yrs ago. They were sold card by card...no regrets at all. If I wanted to I could go buy every single one of them (not the exact card) back again, today.

[Peter_Spaeth]

I once sold off everything post 55 including a 65 set and all the key RCs all the way up through Clemens (ebay mostly) but gradually added back a few select cards up through 65 (a sentimental favorite). I would have had a much harder time selling off the early 50s cards which are among the greatest ever produced.

[Howe’s Hunter]

I have complete sets of Topps from 1972 to 2009. Since 1984, they have been a gift from my mother every year for Christmas. But honestly, I just don't care as much about the "modern" player, and have even made some basic contacts about consigning to an auction to sell them all at once, which I think would be easier than year by year on eBay or anything. But I've not figured out how to break the news to my mother ):-/

[teetwoohsix]

I didn't have complete sets, just single cards from 50's and 60's that I traded off for T206's,,,,,,,and am very happy I did.

Clayton

[Republicaninmass]

When I was a kid waaaay back in 1992 I swore I would buy any cards made after 1976. Although I did accumulate crap, I have set the bar at keeping nothing after 1955

[tbob]

I sold off many of my 1954-1965 sets to buy pre-war cards. I did it set by set. I've since re-purchased the 55 Bowman set, a personal favorite and bought some of the HOFers in the 1956-1961 sets in slabs. Like Tim, I felt I could always get those postwar sets again if the mood struck but many of the prewar cards and sets are too tough not to strike while the iron was hot.

[steve B]

Not specifically. I've sold off a bunch of duplicates of modern stuff, and the money usually gets spent on something more interesting. No regrets yet on the modern stuff I've sold which was mostly junk.

I did sell a 48 Bowman set I built to help finance a ski trip back in maybe 86.
Not much of a set, Musial had paper loss, Berra had been partly colorized - yellow uniform- and a couple other cards had been waxed and used for flipping so much they were round. Oddly, I still regret selling it.

Steve B