Popularity of Pre-War Team Postcards

[bcbgcbrcb]

With so many vintage collectors expanding their horizons these days and jumping into the pre-war world, it seems that the majority of pre-war cards/sets are on the rise, almost across the board. One area that does not, however, is team postcards. If anything, it seems that interest/demand for these has come down substantially in more recent times (except for the 1915 Red Sox, of course).

Thoughts as to why?

[The Detroit Collector]

I love team postcards. My guess is that, collectors just want their cards to show and focus on the one player they are interested in.

[Brian Van Horn]

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[Casey2296]

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I love team cards, great way to pick up multiple HOFers on a budget.
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[bcbgcbrcb]

I have always loved collecting them for the same reason. When wearing my dealer hat though, they are nearly impossible to sell these days except at a loss. That’s given the fact that the ones I have include Wagner, Cobb and Mathewson.

[Exhibitman]

Town ball, semipro, industrial and low minors PCs are the same way. I've gotten killed on generic cards of these sorts.

Cyclical. Like everything else in the hobby. There was a surge of interest when people realized that they existed ("Eureka!"), then stuff came out of the woodworks and it cooled down.

For the future, who knows. Personally, I don't think you can go too wrong with MLB team and minors PCs with HOFers on them. Niche for sure but very interesting to the people in that niche.




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