My vintage collection

I told you in my last post that I was organizing my Vintage collection over the past weekend. All of my collection was in a dresser drawer and while it was mostly organized by year, I didn't have room to add when I picked up more cards. They were all crammed in there so they could fit in one drawer. Now that I have switched rooms, I have another dresser to store cards so I thought I would spread them out some so when I added cards, I could just add them right to the year.

I also thought about putting sets in binders, I was thinking any set that I had over 50% of, I would put in binders. I had enough pages to put one set in so I started putting the 1987 Topps in. I got all the way into the 400's before I decided there was no point to that. I would probably never look at it and there would be holes where my PC and Sox cards were supposed to be and that wouldn't look right. Plus I didn't see dropping the cash on 11 binders and all the pages that would go with it. So they are back in a drawer. It's own separate drawer, but a drawer.

Anyways, they are all separated now in a couple of drawers to where I could add cards as I get them. I also mentioned I had photos so here you go. The rest of the post will be photo heavy.

All of these stacks are minus the White Sox cards and my PC cards.

The 1987 Topps set is complete, the Fleer (39%) and Donruss (46%) are actually decent stacks but next to the Topps they barely look like they've started.

The 1986 Topps set is completed as well but the Fleer (19%) has a long way to go. The Donruss (76%) is one of those over half though.

Again, Topps is completed, but so is the Fleer this time, although it is a smaller set which is why the stack isn't as high. The Donruss (9%) is a long ways away.

The Topps is the tallest at 43% completed, Donruss (18%) and Fleer (9%) have a lot further to go.

As expected, the older I get, the less I have. The only reason the Topps (23%) and Fleer (17%) are even up that high are because of that last package that Jeff sent. Than there's the Donruss (9%). The 1982's however is the first year that I have more of another brand than Topps (17%). Fleer (12%) is just behind Topps but Donruss (68%) leads the way.

Back to Topps (82%) on top in the first year they had some competition. Fleer (70%) isn't real far behind but Donruss (17%) has a lot further to go. I threw in the 1980 Topps (43%) to finish off the decade.

We're all Topps from here on out. 1979 (55%) is one of 3 sets from this decade that I have over half complete. 1978 (25%), 1977 (35%), 1976 (53%) and the lowly 1975 (13%).

1974 (46%) is almost at half while 1973 (76%) is definitely over but it gets slim from here on out. 1972 (9%), 1971 (15%) and 1970 (10%).

I won't get into all the percentages here. They are all pretty low with 1969 being the highest at 8%. I do have a few from 1957 but they are all White Sox cards so they aren't here. I do not have any from 1952.

Obviously I need to work on the vintage vintage. As we all know, I only buy cheap so those won't happen until I decide to start spending some more money.

The side view

The whole collection