After what point do cards become "vintage"?

[RiceLynnEvans75]

I consider pre 1970 vintage.

Same here. I don't know why but something about the 70's doesn't say vintage to me.

 

[Liberate Baltimore]

I have several categories of Baseball Cards:

Pre-World War I: 1886-1919
Pre-War: 1920-1941
World War II era: 1942-1947 *by far the smallest category*
Post World War II: 1948-1956
Golden Era: 1957-1973
Mass Production Era Phase 1: 1974-1980
Mass Production Era Phase 2: 1981-1990
Premium/Chase/Insert era: 1991-present

 

[kentuckyderby]

When 85% of this board could care less about the card (meant has humor towards the heavy prospector pop.)

I would say if it is pre 1979 but to some old school, it needs to be 1950s

 

[ronfromfresno]

Wow, 20 years since 1990, dang where has the time gone. I can remember, vividly, being excited to find full boxes of 1990 Topps at a Smart and Final and purchasing my first full box of cards, I was 11 at the time. I bought so many cards in 1990 and still never finished the complete set.

Vintage to me is anything pre-1970, I think that's because the card I grew up knowing as old or vintage were my Dad's collection from the '60's.

 

[scooter2374]

I consider pre-'70 to be vintage. Dunno why

 

[Guest]

I think this hobby needs to borrow a page from the floundering comic book hobby where they have "Golden Age", "Silver Age", "Bronze Age", et.al.

Because this...


Cannot be in the same category as this...