Show us...your first vintage pickup...if you still have it?!

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Posted By: peter ullman

Here are my first 2 vintage pickups...both purchased in the early eighties as a child. I paid $2 for the matty at a local show and $5 for the T205 at a local card shop.

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Posted By: Jeff Kennedy

Great topic! This is what started it all. As a boy, I always saw T206's in books, but growing up in Indiana, you just couldn't find these in the local cards shops. You could find '89 Upper Deck Griffey's till the cows came home, but no green Cobbies. Then in 2001, I discovered a wonderful thing called eBay. This was my first pickup and it has been with me ever since.

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Posted By: Steve

The plan was to collect nothing but prewar "Bostons", initially.

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Posted By: Ken W.

Originally, I was just going to collect any card (even from modern tribute sets) of HOFers. Got this from ebay in 2003. Changed everything, as I was hooked!

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Posted By: Jantz

My first pre-war purchase was a 34-36 Diamond Star of Rick Ferrell which I sold a few years later. I then decided to pick up a T206 for my collection. After searching Ebay for some time I won a PSA 5 Nap Rucker (throwing) and when the card arrived in the mail I was stunned. That pretty much did it for me. I had to have more. You all know how the rest of the story goes. No photos though. My T206s are at the bank.

Great topic,
Jantz

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Posted By: Steve Dawson

My first vintage pickups were T206s of Mordecai Brown (Chicago down front of jersey), Willie Keeler (batting) and Roger Bresnahan (batting). I bought the three cards for $10 total in 1977. I no longer have the exact cards, but I do have examples of each in PSA 4.


Steve

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Posted By: Dave S

My first...and still an alltime favorite..

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Posted By: Pete Z.

I was just in high school when I got my first goudeys (lovable beaters all). Around the same time I purchased goudey reprints of a bunch of hofers for $20 that I thought were real (luckily I didn't trade for them). My first pre-wwi vintage was a t206 bradley w/ bat for $18 (in '96 or so) that would sell for about that today. I'll insert scans later.

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Posted By: Brian E.

2002 Ebay

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Posted By: davidcycleback

No pics (yet), but I still have my first Pre-War card (1933 Goudey Jack Quinn from the Larry Frisch Catalog!) and my first Pre-WWI card (T206 Harry Pattee, present from my dad)

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Posted By: Bill Todd

From Wayne Miller, in the early 80s. He had cards on consignment in the coin shop I worked in, and I thought this was about the most beautiful thing I had ever seen.

Bill

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Posted By: nbrazil

im sure many people got this as their first vintage pickup. I dont have the card any longer (sold it to upgrade), but it was the one that got me into T206s and prewar cards in general

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Posted By: Jason Silvey

Picked up these guys a couple of years ago and was instantly addicted.

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Posted By: Trae R.

I got this as my first pre-war card in 2004 or 2005, from right here on Net 54!


Peter, what year were your pickups in?

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Posted By: peter ullman

trae...early eighties...1982-83?

pete

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Posted By: Phil Garry

Picked up my first piece in 2003...............

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Posted By: Jeff Lichtman

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Posted By: Jeff W.

This was my first vintage card and I would love to buy it back! If anybody has this Cobb I would buy it back for the price of the next higher grade! Please let me know
jwilliams81@mac.com

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Posted By: Patrick McMenemy

The first pre-war card I ever purchased was a Dooin/Titus T201. Picked it up in an antique mall in Vermont in the 1980s. Up until that point, I was strictly a memorabilia collector. I used to have tons of old wooden tennis rackets, old gloves, bats, catcher masks, and even had two early inflatable chest protectors. Eventually, I decided cards would make for a better display and take up less room. Of couse, I now have 4 display cases of cards. I still have a few old baseballs, several spider masks,a Balfour baseball trophy, and and an awesome D&M cloth catcher's mitt.

Patrick

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Posted By: 1880nonsports

visiting north carolina I wandered into a great collectibles store. I bought a 1955 Jackie Robinson in near mint that graded out as ex/mt at "book" fror NM. Dealer was so happy he wouldn't let me out of his store. I was so happy I didn't want to leave. I got it graded and I still have it as my sole post 1920 card.... I realized within a short time I wanted VINTAGE vintage. My first purchase (1993?) from a Rich Galasso auction - an N43 Fogarty. He called it excellent to mint - it's a solid vg/x thank god - and still sitting on my shelf. I have 44 of the set - it's been 10+ years - and regret passing so often on the boxing cards - as they're becoming even more cost prohibitive. It's been a fun ride and I fear I will be one of those people that does this until they bury me - unless the hobby slowly fades away in the future without the investors to push the sellers to get the material due to something like a Wagner controversy or .25 grades - or GASP - eBay goes away and I would have to pound the pavement again for "stuff" - hard to do in Southern FLA.............. I'll post a scan when time permits.

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Posted By: Jay

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Posted By: leon

was she trimmed? (what a thought )