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Originally Posted by ALBB
Id think during 60s/ early 70s... production was closer to one million of each card printed..... lots of city's in each state..lots of stores in each city
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I believe this is true. Sy Berger the the TOPPS baseball guy stated in a book I have from 1976 that Topps the previous year sold 500 million baseball cards. There were 660 cards in the set that year. Probably more were printed due to product remaining unopened (are there still some in the Fritch warehouse? LOL).
Also, there will always be a large supply of vintage readily available (lets call vintage pre 1980). Why?, because individuals are constantly liquidating their collections either because they lost interest or they need the cash or worse family inherited cards after death and they just want to get rid of them.
Many of the vintage cards we see for sale have been sold over and over again.