To answer my own question (bad form, I know)....I've been in the hobby since 1984 when I was 8 years old. First card shop visited was Dixies Card Shop in Williamsport, PA. Second card shop was the legendary Den's Collectors Den in Laurel, MD. I've been to hundreds of shops over the decades since and I've NEVER seen one that depends on vintage card sales as its main source of revenue. It's has always been packs, boxes and singles of the day, and even supplies before vintage. House of Cards in Silver Spring, Maryland has a large supply of vintage singles and out of every 100 customers, maybe 10% purchase pre-1960s cards.
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