After what point do cards become "vintage"?

frazzles · Jul 30, 2010

My mom's boyfriend has a lot of sports cards that he had acquired and I started going through some of them today and I was just wondering what makes a card vintage?
There were quite a few early-80s baseball cards and some 70s football cards.

Thanks.

SamHell · Jul 31, 2010

Some people say 1973 because that was the last series released set from Topps. Others say 1981 when Donruss and Fleer joined the baseball card market. I don't know that there is a strict definition.

JoshHamilton · Jul 31, 2010

I was born in 1980, so I consider anything before that as vintage.

rum151man · Jul 31, 2010

i think that whatever year they started having multiple rookie cards / everything before then to me is vintage pre 80

SeattleSports · Jul 31, 2010

When 70% of production is used in the spokes of bike tires.

Pine Tar · Jul 31, 2010

I say as soon as I buy the box they become vintage since I spent my retirement money on another useless thing.

scotty21690 · Jul 31, 2010

Pre 1975 for me

Don't ask why.

uniquebaseballcards · Jul 31, 2010

Anything 20 years old or older. I use that for everything, not just cards though - so 1990 is technically vintage :? :shock:

Guest · Jul 31, 2010

For me it's always been pre-1957, the year Topps adopted the card size that have remained the industry standard ever since.

scotty21690 · Jul 31, 2010

uniquebaseballcards said:
Anything 20 years old or older. I use that for everything, not just cards though - so 1990 is technically vintage :? :shock:

I'm sorry but....

FAIL!

No way 1990 is vintage....even 1980 is pushing it.. :?

donrusscrusademan · Jul 31, 2010

1979 and earlier seems to be the norm, but 1975 and earlier is another reasonable point.

moxacaine · Jul 31, 2010

I consider pre 1970 vintage.

fkw · Jul 31, 2010

Pre1948 = Vintage (PreWar)
Post1948 = Modern (the Topps/Bowman days)
1990-2010 = Shinny (shinny gimmick card era)

donrusscrusademan · Jul 31, 2010

fkw said:
(shinny gimmick card era)

hey, some of the gimmicks were cool...

G $MONEY$ · Jul 31, 2010

Pre WW2= Pre War Vintage

Post WW2-1979= Vintage

1980 and up= Modern

uniquebaseballcards said:
Anything 20 years old or older. I use that for everything, not just cards though - so 1990 is technically vintage :? :shock:

I will never ever be able to call a card from 1990 as Vintage, not even in another 20 years.

moxacaine · Jul 31, 2010

G $MONEY$ said:
Pre WW2= Pre War Vintage

Post WW2-1979= Vintage

1980 and up= Modern

uniquebaseballcards said:

Anything 20 years old or older. I use that for everything, not just cards though - so 1990 is technically vintage :? :shock:

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I will never ever be able to call a card from 1990 as Vintage, not even in another 20 years.

just wait until their is a topps heritage set for 1990 topps. :lol:

Fandruw25 · Jul 31, 2010

I say pre-1980 is vintage.

Casebusters · Jul 31, 2010

vintage = pre 1980
old = 1980-1999
modern 2000-2010

So beware when someone says they have old cards to sell..

leatherman · Jul 31, 2010

Anything 1980 and older is vintage to me.

1981 introduced us to Donruss and Fleer (and copious amounts of error cards), and to me, that's when the modern era began.

Leaf · Jul 31, 2010

After what point do cards become "vintage"?

Pre-70 is the standard school among vintage dealers, right?

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