Your discipline !

Archive · #1 08-17-2007, 10:04 AM

Posted By: Jason L

Just wondering what people might say to this, given that we have this great new site...

Assuming you collect both pre-war and postwar cards, are you more or less disciplined with your collecting focus in pre-war vs. post-war?

I am far less focused in my post-war collecting, probably because there are more issues to pick from, but also I think the cards can be cheaper, on average.
...That said, my most expensive card is post-war, so I guess I don't know what I am talking about!

Archive · #2 08-17-2007, 02:33 PM

Posted By: Neal Kane

tends to shift all over the place. I mostly own post war, but I enjoy owning several pre war examples, and look to obtain a few choice others.

My favorite era of cards (and baseball actually) is the 50's.

Archive · #3 08-17-2007, 02:44 PM

Posted By: Phil Garry

Baseball Hall of Fame Rookie Cards for me.........

Archive · #4 08-17-2007, 02:55 PM

Posted By: Jason L

You are saying that you have been equally one-minded (HOFer RCs) on each side of the pre- and post-war fences?

I commend you for your focus!

Archive · #5 08-17-2007, 03:35 PM

Posted By: Paul S

For buying purposes -- not that I am currently going out of my way to buy -- I am tending to focus more on pre-war. There are many issues that I'd like to type collect in the future.

Jason, if money dictates your discipline:
I am not surprised that a post-war card(s) would be your most expensive. I myself am surprised that some of my cards go for what they do. The right post-war card in wonderful condition can be valued high, and it's not always the HOFers either. Alot of my post-wars can get more than my middle condition pre-war HOFers. I was just looking at the Mile High auction results. My advice, locate a cache of 54 Bowman in PSA 8 and above and sell them to get some pre-wars, if that's your thing.

Archive · #6 08-17-2007, 04:26 PM

Posted By: Anthony

I work on sets from a few eras at any given time. It's the Davillilo strategy, if a set or era gets hot you focus on another one till it cools down. Saved me tons of money over the years.
All things being equal I go for the cards that come up less often. Keep a library of auction catalogs and after a while you can see what changes hands more often than other things, and jump on something that is rarely seen.

Archive · #7 08-17-2007, 07:32 PM

Posted By: Phil Garry

Yes, Jason. I do both sides, pre-war and post-war HOF RC's.

Archive · #8 08-17-2007, 07:55 PM

Posted By: Ken McMillan

Jason,

My focus is very disciplined. I love my Cubbies and collect all the Topps and Topps updates sets with errors and variations for post war. For prewar, I collect T207 Cubs and E121 series of 120 Yankees and Elmer Miller cards only. I like to look at T207 and oj older sets, but have not collected them as recent. I also have an extra 1955 topps double header card and some extra 1959 topps cubs commons and a 1956 topps team card.

Ken

Archive · #9 08-20-2007, 06:55 PM

Posted By: identify7

My set spans all periods, including the present. I shift my thrust from era to era in an effort to maintain balance as I complete my objectives. Right now, I'm back in the 19th century primarilly.

Archive · #10 08-20-2007, 08:19 PM

Posted By: Marc S.

with post-war cards...as there are so many, I try and collect relatively fewer of them. With pre-war, I tend to move towards rarity and sometimes pick up some real beaters just to have one in my collection.

~ms

Archive · #11 08-21-2007, 04:11 AM

Posted By: JimCrandell

More disciplined on pre-war. I would likely be very hesitent on starting a new pre-war set but pretty much any 50s or 60s set in any sport that I did not have that was in 8 or better I would buy.

Jim

Archive · #12 08-21-2007, 10:55 AM

Posted By: boxingcardman

When you can find stuff at five bucks or less in top condition, buying a dud just isn't a consideration that prevents you from going forward. I know I bought a bunch of high grade postwar at the National beause it was so darn cheap--yet I'd basically given up on actively collecting postwar. But when I am seeing mid-1970s Ryans in PSA 8 for $5 each, I gotta pull the trigger.

Edited to say: and in many cases, followed shortly thereafter by a cracking sound as the cards are shucked from their slabs and added to my raw sets...

Archive · #13 08-21-2007, 11:29 AM

Posted By: Ted Zanidakis

ADAM W

You bring out a great point......whether it's on ebay or at big BB card shows, there are some amazing bargains to be
gotten. For example, I used to work on 1949 Bowman's and I used to pay $40-50 for ExMt Hi#s. Nowadays, you can
get these same cards (graded) for as low as $10-15.

And, I wonder....why do these sellers waste their time and money to get these cards graded ?

The major market shift to pre-war stuff has to be really hurting the '50s - '70s card market in the Ex to ExMt category.

TED Z

Archive · #14 08-21-2007, 11:51 AM

Posted By: Jason L

totally agree.
I picked up a handful of 1960s football a couple months back because it was cheap - and I don't even collect football cards!

no such thing as a bargain in pre-war anymore.
Nothing like pricing to challenge your discipline

Archive · #15 08-21-2007, 06:12 PM

Posted By: boxingcardman

And the best part is finding cards from my childhood (the real one, not the current extended one) at ridiculously low prices and pack-fresh. I paid under $2 a card for raw hockey, football and basketball HOFers from the 1970s. And those cards were really nice and from sets that are notorious for print and centering flaws.