What’s the cut-off year for your collection

[butchie_t]

My cutoff is not at an end but at a beginning. 1969 is my beginning year. My first real year of collecting awareness. I have not decided when it ends just yet. But the last year of Topps is a good spot.

Right now I am filling gaps with 72 currently and 73 after that. That will get me to a run of 69 - 2k with some traded and updates sets needed between 95 - 2k. I’ll start filling 2k1 to present as I go along.

Nothing after Topps is done. I will be done too.

[ALR-bishop]

Bowman 1948-1955
Fleer 1926 and 1959- 2007
Topps 1948 and 1951- 2021

[Gorditadogg]

Originally Posted by ALR-bishop

Bowman 1948-1955

Fleer 1926 and 1959- 2007

Topps 1948 and 1951- 2021

Good answer..

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[Harliduck]

I'm 52-90...

I know that 81-90 is hardly worth much...in fact I am sure some of the sets the sheets and binder is worth more...but I collected until 1990 (I was 20) as a youth and stopped at 91 as I was keen to the fact back then it was worthless and was disenchanted. So when I got back into collecting a decade ago I was still interested in seeing the 81-90 sets. Every so once in a while I'll grab the 93 Donruss and scroll through... Or the 90 Leaf...why not. Good memories.

[bobsbbcards]

1948 to 1991 w/ some outliers (T206, Heritage).

[egri]

I don't have a hard cutoff, but after the early 1960s I generally only collect if I don't have to open my wallet too much. The sets after then are too large, and I'm usually not a fan of the designs or the photograpy.

[deweyinthehall]

Right now I have a run of Topps master sets from 1969-1997, with just a handful of odd ball items still on my need list (i.e. 1969 #567, no black outlining, etc.). I have recently started moving slowly out in either direction - I'm more than halfway to a 1968 set, and I'll put a 1998 set together soon to, and then move to 1967/1999, etc. I have no cut-off date in mind in either direction - I'll probably keep going until my money or my breath run out...whichever comes first. Because I collected some of them as a kid, I also over the last few years put together a master run of Donruss, Fleer, Score and Upper Deck from 1981-1992.

That's my primary interest - I also have a modest assortment of Topps Football, Hockey and Basketball from the late 1970s which I'd like to expand in both directions as well (the '79 Gretzky is currently acting as a road block to THAT particular interest), plus some Topps non-sports (Star Wars, Charlies Angels, Happy Days, etc.) and the old Wonder Bread inserts from the earlier '70s.

Finally, I do player collections of Tim Wakefield, Dwight Evans, Jim Rice and Jamie Quirk.

[egri]

Originally Posted by egri

I don't have a hard cutoff, but after the early 1960s I generally only collect if I don't have to open my wallet too much. The sets after then are too large, and I'm usually not a fan of the designs or the photography.

I guess I should add that my cutoff line keeps moving forwards; there aren't too many living players from the 1950s and '60s I'm interested in writing to and don't already have, so I've had to start moving into the 1970s by necessity.