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I collect mainly vintage..
olb31
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I call vintage "the cardboard era", 1991 and older. Some here would say 1975 and older. But I really don't like the 1988 Fleer set. I find myself avoiding the set and the cards. I never really look for any or want any. Im just the opposite on the 1987 Fleer set, I really like that one and buy many cards from it.
For Topps, the 1986 - 1989 sets are kind of drab. i do collect some of the cards from the sets, but none of them really stand out. Maybe the 1987 Bo and Barry.
But 1988 Fleer set is by far the one I have no interest in.
What's the sets you don't like or find yourself rarely looking for or collecting?
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For me, vintage is 1972 and earlier when Topps last issued cards in a series. There are Topps designs I do not like. By decade….here is the most ugly designs by Topps:
1950s…1959 ( own only a Gibson RC)
1960s….1968 (own only Bench RC / 2 Ryan RCs)
1970s….1972 (own only Ryan)
Sticking with Fleer, I didn’t like the 1991 design because of the player name font and the horizontal lines.
I also didn’t like 1990 Donruss: too many lines and the name in cursive was hard to read in my opinion. I was a Donruss fan in the late 80s/early 90s and was disappointed that the 1990 design only had the team name printed at the top, and not the team logo that they had put on their cards since 1985. Red/orange was a good color choice, and would have been a much better design with a printed name and a team logo.
For vintage, I agree with mintonlypls about 1959 being the ugliest 50s design. I never liked the circular photo. Too much unused space on that design. That year would have looked better with a rectangular photo.
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have to disagree @mintonlypls - 1972 just might be the best design of that decade
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And to @olb31 's original point, yeah 1988 Fleer is a bit tacky looking now but we all loved it back then. Kind of like those Charlotte Hornets windbreakers everybody owned.
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My 'vintage' (and my collection) ends with 1979.
1989 Topps may be my least favorite Topps design. I like it less than 86. I like pretty much every other Topps design.
1991 Fleer is so... yellow. 83 Fleer I don't like either. 82 looks like they put no effort in to the design.
1982 and 1983 Donruss are don't do anything for me either. Then again, I don't like any Donruss after 87.
1981 Donruss and 1981 Fleer have grown on me over the years. Too bad there aren't more key cards from that year.
I like everything. Maybe that's the problem.
I even maintain a fondness for 1987 and 1988 Topps Baseball. I remember NOT being deeply involved in the card business and attending a Dodger game at the Stadium. I bought a Gameday program and read through to back where an ad was placed for the purchase of an '87 Topps set, something like $14.99 plus shipping. Nah, I didn't want to bother. But, by the following year, I had begun to get actively interested and the '88 Topps set represents the year I was married. I started casually collecting cards again, as I had in my youth. It snowballed from there.
As far as labeling whatever vintage is, that just depends on who you ask.
1980 topps/opc baseball is considered the last vintage set. So 1980 is the cutoff for me.
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They should probably move this up to 1990. When they Topps paper changed. The 1980 line is just for PSA pricing.
Antiques stores and Vintage stores are different because of the age of the items they sell. Antiques are typically 50 years or older. While an item is considered vintage if it's 20-25 years or older.
Comics tend to make the divide using eras or ages. Golden, Bronze, Copper, etc. Sports cards used to make the divide using WWII. Pre-War and Post-War and the dead ball era, I guess. There have been a lot of wars since WWII. It's confusing. 1980 is quickly coming up on being 50 years ago.
Never liked the 1988-1990 score baseball sets... The 1989 score football was tolerable!
i thought 1990 score was ok.
I agree that vintage ends with 1980. That's the last year of Topps‘ monopoly. It also happens to be the last year that I collected, partly because the presence of other card manufacturers was a big turn off to me.
I've collected and gone to shows since the late 1970's as a teenager. Everything in the hobby changed in 1981 when they added Fleer and Donruss and the baseball card industry exploded almost overnight. The prevailing sentiment among most for years was that 1975 and prior was vintage. I think that's because when the industry exploded in 1981, you could still go to Renato Galasso or Pacific Trading Cards and buy boxes for $20 or less going back to 1976 -- the 1976's disappeared pretty quick but for several months, you could still buy 1977-1980 boxes for very cheap. There were boards of those boxes at BB card shows too. Also in 1981, rookie cards became the most sought after cards -- I remember the 1981 Joe Charboneau was the 1st big rookie that was highly sought after. But that put a big focus on 1975 w Brett, Yount, Carter, Lynn, Rice. Thats one of the reasons I think collectors viewed 1975 & prior as "vintage" -- b/c at the time, you could get 1976-1980 boxes very easily but 1975 & prior were mostly carried by the big boys Larry Fritsch, Wholesale Cards or Card Collectors Co.