Vintage 1981 Donruss ad

[BBCgalaxee]

Cards shown are different than release too.

 

[Hawk8]

Cards shown are different than release too.

That is pretty cool!

 

[mrmopar]

We know neither of those card made the cut as shown. That makes something like that more fun.

 

[Sig40cal]

Man I had no idea Donruss or Fleer for that matter existed until '86.

 

[allstars]

That's twice in 24 hours you used the term vintage to describe 80's stuff.

Darn kids...

 

[BBCgalaxee]

That's twice in 24 hours you used the term vintage to describe 80's stuff.

Darn kids...

Had a woman call me last year asking if I had interest in buying her ANTIQUE 1993 cards!

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[Brewer Andy]

Vintage does not mean, or necessarily refer to something "old", but rather a certain year. Collectors are weird.

 

[sheetskout]

I want a poster like that. Or a vintage Topps poster.

 

[allstars]

Vintage does not mean, or necessarily refer to something "old", but rather a certain year. Collectors are weird.

True, but "vintage" should only be from the days before we started using the word itself...

 

[Austin]

That's twice in 24 hours you used the term vintage to describe 80's stuff.
Darn kids...

I don't think '80s cards are vintage either.
However, 1981 was 33 years ago, a third of a century (crazy!) so that's certainly vintage to a large portion of today's collectors.

When I was collecting in 1990, 33 years ago was 1957, which was definitely vintage.
33 years is a long damn time, even for a 41 year old like me.

 

[BBCgalaxee]

Just had the "when is it vintage" question with a friend yesterday.

Both of us said pre 1980 when it comes to cards.

But considering '81 was the first year for Donruss, I'll stretch my belief.

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[fordman]

I think one could consider anything produced prior to 1986 as vintage. 1986 is when the whole ball card craze started and Topps started to crank the presses a little more.

Fordman

 

[Kid4hof03]

Very cool! I love these ad sheets, I have a few that show Gary Carter cards and a couple from Topps football that also show cards that never were, here's a 1980 Topps football

 

[BBCgalaxee]

I recently started selling older comics (late 80s to mid 90s) and noticed that card companies actually advertised occasionally in them.

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[bcubs]

Great ad. I think the Brett used in the sell sheet is a close up cropped version of his actual 1981 Donruss card. The Schmidt definitely is not.

 

[Philip J. Fry]

WHACK!