When did you start collecting pre-war/vintage?

[bbsports]

Started collecting vintage baseball cards in the 4th grade age 9 buying 1964 Topps baseball packs at a nickel per pack. My parents then bought me my first box of Topps baseball cards in 1965 for $1.25 per box. The cards came in per series every month. I started doing pre war cards in 1970. I bought cards through the Traders Speaks magazine by bidding on them & mailing out the bids. Also bid on some cards through Sports Collectors Digest when they owned by Stommen Publications. One of my first cards I bought was a Red Portrait Ty Cobb in ex/mnt condition for $5.00. Commons in ex/mnt were selling from 50 cents-$1.00 per card. Since there were no price guides, no internet, & no grading it was great time to be in this hobby.

[Bilko G]

Originally Posted by bbsports

Started collecting vintage baseball cards in the 4th grade age 9 buying 1964 Topps baseball packs at a nickel per pack.

but this isn't what Leon is asking. Sure, 1964 cards might be "vintage" now, but they weren't vintage when you first started buying them in 64'.

Now, if you started buying T206's in 1964, then that would count.

Myself personally, i just started collecting pre-war about 3 years ago or so and the reason why was because of this website.

Ive been a modern collector (and collecting stuff from the 50s-90's) pretty much my entire life (except for maybe about a 6 or 7 year slow period in my late teens/early 20s). Im 35 now and have been collecting "hard" for the last 10 years or so.

I happened onto this site from another modern board a few years back and started slowly "lurking" every few days, within a couple months i was "hard-core addict" of pre-war cards. o thanks to everyone on this forum, lol!!!

[GrayGhost]

I don't have the budget to collect much, but have begun my little type card collection up to 1941, within the last 8-9 months or so. Have always loved the old cards/memorabilia and enjoy looking at a card from diff sets, and such. Plus, the fact that baseball is the greatest sport history wise , no shock that so many of us would love the older cards that kind of bring that history alive.

Value was mentioned on other thread. All I want is to get something I enjoy. Basically, other than the "cream of the crop" in cards, I don't look at cardboard as an investment so much.