A New All Time Record for a Sports Card

[Aquarian Sports Cards]

Originally Posted by BioCRN

There is a casual vintage board on Reddit with a rather steady influx of new collectors and collectors returning to the hobby that have either fulfilled their "modern" wants and/or they're tired of spending big money on busting ultra-modern packs/boxes/breaks/etc.

While anecdotal, there does seem to be a steady pipeline creating vintage collectors from the non-vintage entry point.

I imagine there's other corners of the internet experiencing the same thing.

I've been saying for years that the process of creating new vintage collectors has never really changed. Everyone starts as a kid buying what's current, collecting their heroes etc. Let's say something crazy like 10 million kids each generation buy cards at some point. Some weren't really that interested, some decide they like girls better, some lose interest when they leave home etc, so let's say that only 10% keep collecting past the age of 18. That leaves 1 million collectors. Eventually some percentage of those become more interested in the history of their team, or the game, or even the hobby and the natural progression is to older stuff. If that number is 10% that's 100,000 new vintage collectors every generation.

My numbers may be completely nuts, who knows but that process I've seen a couple times now and as I age I expect to see it several more times over.