What do you collect?

[g_vezina_c55]

just came back in the hobby in june. Try to build a mickey mantle topps basic card run in psa case.
need only the 1966 to complete my first goal since my return.
After that i don t know where my focus will be
perhaps bowman's mickey mantle cards.

[71buc]

I meander around a bit. However my primary focus is any and all things related to these guys.

[Arazi4442]

I just got back into the hobby as well. My main goal was not to get carried away and end up too much clutter so I made a list of the top hundred athletes of all-time ( just by my opinion) and a list of top 30 athletes from my home state of Oklahoma.
I'm collecting RCs from those 130 (so maybe it's already up to 150). I like the mix of affordable cards and iconic ones.

[Luke]

I collect t206s almost exclusively. Not because I don't want other things, but because I don't have much of a card budget and every time I buy something else, I end up selling it to pay for a t206 I want more. I also have a couple stacks of tougher t207 backs and a handful of other 1909-1917 cards from other sets.

[irv]

I collect mainly 52 Topps cards but swayed early when I joined the site and had purchased other cards along the way.

My main focus now is collecting 52 Topps, but I would also like to add some pre-war, namely a Ruth of some sort, a Gehrig, etc.

I am currently in a dilemma. I have always loved the 56 Topps Mantle and I have the opportunity to purchase one for a fair price (about $600 CDN) but a part of me says spend that money on more 52's.

I need to let the seller know soon, if it's not too late already, but for the life of me, I can't seem to make up my mind?

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by irv

I collect mainly 52 Topps cards but swayed early when I joined the site and had purchased other cards along the way.

My main focus now is collecting 52 Topps, but I would also like to add some pre-war, namely a Ruth of some sort, a Gehrig, etc.

I am currently in a dilemma. I have always loved the 56 Topps Mantle and I have the opportunity to purchase one for a fair price (about $600 CDN) but a part of me says spend that money on more 52's.

I need to let the seller know soon, if it's not too late already, but for the life of me, I can't seem to make up my mind?

Dale, Mantle is over rated and overpriced. Save up a little more and get a beater 52 Topps Eddie Mathews.

[tonyo]

Always like reading these threads. Thanks everyone

I'm going very slowly this year due to some setbacks , but.............

Here are the sets I'm actively albeit slowly working to complete :

• 51 bowman football: need 1 card
• t205 : need 17 commons , 11 sp, 1 ML not going for any variations on this set.
• two mid-1990's autographed set; about 60% on both

Also have the following on hold: these are more or less in limbo and not sure which direction they'll take in the coming months:

• t206 set: upgrade with more interesting backs
• early candy cards (e90-1, e92, etc and their image-sharing brethren) unique poses, varying backs
• topps/bowman HOFer run 1948-1980
• pre-war hofer type card set - going for 100 types, at least one card of all hall of famers, to fill out an antique apothecary type cabinet I bought a couple years ago.

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