I think this was a huge success!

I certainly don't know of all the people involved in making this event happen but thank you to all. Lee, Tom and Judy it was a pleasure to meet you. I was the one with the old Congress ads from the 40's. I will take you up on your offer to see similar items from your collection at some point in the future.

Jay thanks for getting us the gift bags and those who supported the event. Nice little score there...a D&D private reserve deck!

Thanks Lee for the Jerry's card and I also picked up a pair of 1860 cards from Tom and Judy.

Dave

I'm about 10 minutes from Jason. He's been without power for a while. I lost power for about 12 hrs, it came back on about 30 mins ago. Hopefully Jason is getting his soon if not already. We got about 30 mm (1 inch) of ice. Trees down everywhere!! 

That is awesome...I might have to make a few of those.

Hey Kpop...I'm over here too.

I'm also interested in how others reply to this. But here was my logic. The ebay prices are fairly close....a few bucks either way depending on the day of the week. I was lucky enough to get a brick of magic cons and rather than sell them wanted to trade to build my collection. So if someone had DB decks but wanted magic cons then we both win.

It's not about getting exact value for me. But rather building my collection. As for Nathans comment. I don't agree 100%. The split spades have been out longer and are around $25 give or take. Look at the value at the magic cons from a year ago....selling at $60. I think the magic con v2 have more potential....just my opinion.

Either way, I'm interested in what others think too.

Has anyone got invoices yet I really want these  I don't want to miss out on it

Yes, I replied to Russell within hours of his posting and I got an invoice the next day.

Hi all,

My name is Dave Stewart. I've been hanging around for a little while but never introduced myself. I live just outside of Toronto Canada.

I'm 45 (one of the old guys), married and have two girls who are as old as a lot of you...based on the "age" poll.

I started to collect a few decks late last year with the thought of having some different cards to play poker with. My research lead me to Aether and UC. Soon after I discovered I was an acquaintance of CBJ (moved over to UC but still adding content here). With his assistance I'm now hooked on collecting. Thanks Jay....I think!!

In 6 months I've collected close to 45 decks, counting some doubles and a brick (to get a free deck). I'm very interested in collecting vintage decks and other items. I have the Season's uncuts on the way and recently bought some old Bicycle magazine ads. These items will be on display in my man cave poker room along with any other interesting items I can find along the way.

Cheers
Dave

 

It just may start a trade frenzy. But for the time being, let's stick to what we have and not what we want. Otherwise this thread could get mad cluttered. So again, what deck numbers do you HAVE??

If it wasn't for madness I'd be insane

Cos, will the decks be available at any resellers? I probably only want one deck and could combine that with other decks with another reseller?

That's interesting. I think most agree that having a sealed vintage deck is special and I'd never buy a sealed vintage deck and open it. But I'd also like to own vintage opened decks. I wouldn't use them but it would be nice to see and touch them.

So....that brings use back to new decks. If you think a deck will be collectible would it not be acceptable to still open it. Albeit the value may go down, but in 40 or 50 years is it still not going to be a collectible deck and some will be happy to own an open and cheaper deck.

I certainly understand the concept of buying a few extras with the intention of selling or trading them in the future. Those I would certainly keep sealed. But maybe if I'm collecting for just me...it's ok to open them 

I'm a new collector...just a few months now. I started out looking for interesting cards for poker games and discovered the world of collecting. Because I started out by collecting only decks of interest I can't resist opening every deck I buy. And now have started buying 2 or more decks of each I get (gets expensive fast).

My question is, how many collectors out there buy decks and never open them? Do you eventually get so many you are able to resist the temptation? Seems the idea of collecting is you get to open and see and touch. But the down side is they lose some collection value.