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Vintage Baseball and Non-sport Cards


My favorite "complete set".
Picture taken in left center field at Dodgers Stadium in 2004.
I am a Philadelphia area collector who has been collecting vintage cards (both sports and non-sports related) off and on since the mid 1970s. I have recently returned to the collecting hobby and decided to put this small website together to share some of my collection with fellow collectors.

You wont find many graded cards on this site as that is a phenomenon that I am still learning about and coming to grips with. While I am not averse to buying graded cards (I have a few in my collection now) I am just as likely to break them out of their slabs so they can be handled and appreciated like the other "raw" cards which are in my collection. This is especially true in the case of sets I may be working on currently as I have the unfortunate habit of being a set collector which, at todays prices, I need to kick as soon as possible!

My collecting interests are primarily in pre-World War II baseball issues and especially cards that relate to Philadelphia teams of that era. I also enjoy many pre-World War II non-sports issues and plan to include some examples on this site in the near future.

I hope that you enjoy the images depicted on this website and welcome email regarding the site or the images found within.


Above are some examples of early 20th century tobacco packs.
Some of the packs above held cards which can be found on this website.

Cool links to visit...

Network 54 vintage baseball card forum

Old Cardboard - great resource site for vintage cards

Slanty Couch - another great resource site for vintage cards

Caramel Cards - Pete Calderon

Shammus' prewar page

Bens vintage card collection

Leons typecard collection

 
 
 
Last Updated August 7, 2007
 
 
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