Type Collecting?

[ullmandds]

Personally...i got the idea to type collect from the old sport americana price guides from my childhood. I can't remember the edition but one of them had color photos in the center of type cards from barry halper's collection of the more basic types ie. e90-1-e107, similar for tobacco. In retrospect I don't recall how complete the types were...but...this is when I decided to be a type collector...albeit one on a tight childlike budget. So this remains my goal...as complete a run of T, E, D as possible...although I question it all of the time.

I'm down to needing a handful of very expensive ones which I'll most likely never be able to aquire. I like the idea of having one of each card to examine...study...compare with others the paper thickness, gloss, size, etc. With grading this has become less practical/easy to do unfortunately. I have no aspirations of a Leon-like type collection as I could never afford it...but I think it is AWESOME!!!!