Are vintage collectors a small percentage?

akuracy503

Dealing with modern cards seems to get more action than vintage...
I'm assuming this is a combination of vintage collectors just being more experienced and patient on deals.

Am I off? It's what i've noticed...

Sean1125

There are a ton more modern, simply because there are more modern cards. There are probably more brands in 5 years than years there were cards printed for vintage....

Dealing with modern, whoever is hot is hot and people pay a premium for them (See Bradford 5 digit 1/1 sale)

With vintage, quite a few of the players either don't play or are not around anymore, so there value fluxuate with the economy and number "available" for more expensive cards I think.


I think quite a few of the people who deal with vintage do it for the money, but collector wise I'd have to say modern is by far higher.

SDavid

Seems like it. For instance, when you start adding up the number of 60's cards that will sell for over $200 raw, it's not that many. Heck, I'm surprised at how many strong HOF'ers from that era can be had for under 200 as 8's. Pre-war prices are different of course, but only because there's far fewer of them.

BunchOBull

Maybe less vintage collectors, but a lot of hobby money is spent on vintage. Modern is easier on the pocket book to collect.

PSASAP

For collectors of a certain age, cards from the 60's are a touchstone of their youth and are so recognizable that a picture of a particular player, without using the border designs or graphics, can be matched to a certain year. For example, every collector knows what a 1965 Mickey Mantle looks like, just by the pose on the card. It obviously helped that there was only one card brand at the time, but the point is, everybody knows that card. Now how many collectors are able to look at a Michael Jordan post-1992 card, and without looking at the borders or graphics, tell you what year the card was made? Not many, I would guess.

wallst32

I think a lot of it has to do with knowing the players and seeing them play live or on TV. Let's take basketball for example; a basketball fan and card collector today is going to want Kevin Durant, Derrick Rose, Blake Griffin, LeBron James, Kobe Bryant, etc. If they've never seen a Jordan, Erving, Bird, Magic, West, Russell, Havelick play, they'll have less interest in their cards. It's not like these cards are cheap to begin with so why devote your hobby dollars to a player you can't really relate to?

mikeschmidt

<< <i>Dealing with modern cards seems to get more action than vintage...
I'm assuming this is a combination of vintage collectors just being more experienced and patient on deals.

Am I off? It's what i've noticed... >>



It all depends. The vast majority of major auctions [Heritage, Legacy, Goodwin, Mile High, REA, Lipset] are focused on vintage, with little to no modern, and they get crazy action.

MeteoriteGuy

Walmart will likely move 5x the amount of modern, then all us "collectors" will in vintage combined.

It will be interesting how this plays out the next decade, as cards of "my youth" become increasing more 80s, and more common, while modern cards continue to have smaller press runs.

vladguerrero

not sure, what did the "greener pastures" say?