newbie and first time poster thread

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Posted By: Keith O'Leary

Thought maybe a thread devoted to this might spawn some intros from lurkers.

Maybe what you collect?.....what you'd like to collect?....what your interests are?

Me.....N2, N13, N28, N29, N43 (somewhat), N162 (somewhat), N184, N310, E75, E76, E95, E96, T3, T9, T200, T222, tobacco albums, tobacco advertising banners, tobacco premiums, tobacco store cards, and have a baseball type card collection going.

Keith

 

 

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Posted By: davidcycleback

Totally off topic to this board, I collect original fashion photographs. Below are three of my favorites.



1937 Coco Chanel by Horst P. Horst (legendary German photographer)




1952 Vogue magazine photo by Francis McLaughlin. Signed on back by the photographer





Cibachrome self portrait by a famous model

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Posted By: joe brennan

I collect vintage Maxfield Parrish prints and calendars dating from 1907-1945. I also have a signed check by the master dated December 7th, 1932.

"I had the right to remain silent. I just didn't have the ability" Ron White

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Posted By: Wesley

My interests change all the time but right now one of my main focuses are N171/174 cards.

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Posted By: Charlie O'Neal

I started collecting pre-war cards about 2 months ago. My main interest is t206 cards (SGC 40 and 50) and T3's. I'm trying to collect some of the HOFers like Cobb, Lajoie, and Johnson when the price doesn't get to far out of hand.
The first card that I bought pre-war was a T206 Murphy batting SGC 40. Enjoyed that card enough to buy 14 more t206's so far including a T206 Lajoie Batting SGC 50.

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Posted By: steve yawitz

i think this is actually my second post here since i remember commenting some time ago on julie's article on georges vezina. one could probably guess then that i am mainly a vintage hockey collector. here's a few of my favorites.



over the last year or so, though, i've shifted a lot of my hobby attention to baseball stuff - mainly t205's and 6's, e90-1's and a few e92's and e120's. so basically, i'm one of the noob's who's driving prewar cards to increasingly insane prices.

and in keeping with the other theme of the thread, i also have to mention that i collect phish posters, which are basically baseball cards for dirty stinking hippies.

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Posted By: Daniel McCarthy

I got back into card collecting about 2 years or so and have stumbled around buying a bit of this and a bit of that.

I am trying to put together an HOFer set with one card of every player.

Finding this site and all the great info. has been invaluable to me. I have only posted once or twice in the past to ask questions. I guess I haven't posted more since I really don't have much knowledge to share.

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Posted By: Nick

I've been an occasional lurker here, but only joined now.

Some of you already know me from other boards, but I'll still give the detailed collecting interests.

I collect everything sports to some degree. Most of my focus is baseball, both vintage and modern, but I collect other sports as well (with a tiny amount in non-sports cards). I also collect autographs and memorabilia (everything from store model equipment with player names to press pins to bobbleheads to yearbooks/programs to actual game-used equipment).

I collect both raw and graded. I mainly buy graded on line and raw in person.

I'm an Angeleno, and collect the Dodgers, Lakers, and Raiders especially.

In pre-war vintage, I mainly dabble, although I'm slowly working on several of the Goudey sets, Diamond Stars, R312, M116, T206, '40 Play Ball, T218, Goudey Wide Pen Premium, and type cards.

In post-war vintage, I'm working on R423, all the Topps and Bowman major issues, Lake to Lake Braves and Packers, Topps Venezuelans, Kellogg's, Topps Candy Lids, Red Mans (w. or w/o tab), '49 and '60 Leaf, '59-'63 Fleer, OPC, Bell Brands, Morrell Meats, Red Hearts, PCL sets, type cards, and a number of other smaller sets.

In modern cards, I'll mention that I collect Jerry Porter (Raiders WR), autographed cards, game-used cards of retired players, and a number of other things that will get me banned if I talk about them much here. I'm not pleased that vintage memorabilia is cut up for cards, but since they're already doing it, I will buy it if I can get it cheaply on the secondary market.

I also focus on HOFers from each sport for autographs and cards.

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Posted By: barry arnold

Great to see the intros. from 'lurkers.' A fabulous potpourri!
Steve Yawitz and i have done some incredible trading and am pleased
he's now a newbie!
right, Steve!

regards to all lurkers

all the best

barry arnold

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Posted By: Julie

I have a small collection of chess cards...

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Posted By: David McDonald

Greetings All-
I am a serious Net54 lurker. I've gotten a great education about cards and baseball from you folks for which I am grateful. I crawl out of the woodwork now and then to post the odd reminiscence or smart-ass comment.
I spent my boyhood around NYC in the fifties. Took in plenty of games at Yankee Stadium and a few at the Polo Grounds (I was seven when the Giants moved west). Games at Yankee Stadium were glorious then. Fifty years later I can still close my eyes and see it all in living color. Like every kid I collected Topps cards which were flipped, traded, rubber-banded, clothespinned to a spoke and beaten into PSA1's. Who knew?
I stopped collecting cards around 1960 or so. We moved to Denver and they didn't have a ML team. (We did have the Game of the Week with Diz and Pee Wee which was the next best thing). Four states and three provinces of Canada later I ended up in Hawaii. Major League Baseball just ain't the same for me as it used to be. I've changed, baseball's changed, America's changed. I got into vintage card collecting about three or four years ago around when both my folks died. I seem to want to connect with their days of the 20's and 30's as well as my youth. I put together a '33 and '34 Goudey set off of eBay in the last couple of years. That was good fun. Also have assembled various Topps sets, my favorite being the 1953 set. (When I got married two years ago I gave my best man a mid-grade 1957 Topps set in a MJ Roop binder as a gift. Those were the first cards he knew as a kid; he was blown away. Wouldn't you be, too?).
As for earlier cards, I would love a pristine T205 set but it ain't gonna happen. I do have a beautiful Matty T205. Also am keen on the T3 Turkey Reds. Have a beautiful Matty T3, as well. As for the T206's, that set scares me. What I plan to do is try eventually to get hold of at least the cards in those sets that I really like in a reasonable eye-appeal condition.
Aside from baseball cards I collect Hawaiiana. Prices on this stuff took off big-time a few years ago. I was lucky to acquire a nice collection of postcards, books etc before it got too expensive. Those little hula dollies sold for 49 cents back in WW2. They now get three hundred dollars and more.

David McDonald
Honolulu


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Posted By: Elliot

uh, i guess this is an "X" rated forum now.
Buy them some skirts.