Vintage Football Cards And Sports Memorabilia
Are Valued Investments

 
Vintage football cards are rare and extremely valuable. The first football card was produced in 1888. As with baseball cards of this era, these vintage cards were distributed by a tobacco company. If one of these cards can be found it is a very expensive treasure to have.

The 1920’s saw a few vintage football cards produced and distributed. However, their popularity began to increase in the 1930’s as the sport gained public interest. Cereal brands such as Wheaties and Kellogg’s began distributing football cards. These famous cereals in turn helped the sport and collector cards grow in popularity.

While cereals helped spur interest in vintage football cards it was another product that became a collector favorite. Matchbooks of the 1930’s with football player pictures and information are highly prized in serious collector possessions. These vintage matchbooks can be seen at trade shows and sold at online and public auctions.

Vintage football card collecting became a business in the late 1940’s and early 1950’s with companies like Leaf and Bowman producing large number of cards in sets of 100 or more cards per set. Although Leaf and Bowman produced sets of football cards, it was the Topps Company that really made vintage football card collecting a hobby. To this day Topps is one of the most popular trading card companies. They have produced cards without any years of stoppage as did Leaf and Bowman. 

Collecting football cards has grown in popularity, but not like baseball card collecting. Baseball card collecting is still the number one sport card to collect. Vintage football cards have remained a very close

second. From the 1960’s forward many companies have been producing football cards. The value of these cards increase as time goes by. So, if your idea of investing is not in stocks and bonds, try Vintage football cards.

The investment one makes with vintage football cards can also be seen in sports memorabilia collecting. Sports memorabilia is more rare and highly prized. Serious collectors can travel for miles to find the one item they truly want to own. But, they can also purchase sports memorabilia online. Collecting such items did not become as popular as vintage cards until the mid twentieth century. It has grown more as an investment than it has a hobby. Again, if the markets are not your favorite method of investing your hard earned money, try sports memorabilia.