My '65T Set is Now History

Finally--the next time I come across some 65T cards, I can call them doubles and say I don't need any unless they are upgrades.  The same goes for the Embossed insert set.  It's literally been years since I've been waiting for a deal on the Mantle to complete this set.  There are a lot of fake 65T Mantle's out there, but fortunately, this is not one of them.  You'd have to get used to the L/R off-centering and the aged tape, but the rest is fine by me.  I will gladly add this low-grade card to my collection to complete the 65T set.  

So what's next?  This is now my fifth 60's set to be completed, leaving just five more 60's sets to go.  In the order that I expect to complete them are 66T (-2), 64T (-23), 67T (-3), 61T (-44), and 63T (-105).  All that's missing from my 60's collection is 177 cards in all.  It'll be a long and difficult journey, but hopefully, I'll be able to complete 4 of the 5 before the decade is over.  The only 2 cards that I expect to give me any serious trouble are 67T Seaver and 63T Rose.

Let me tell you.  I'm glad I focused almost all of my efforts on vintage over the past decade.  The prices of 40's-60's cards have skyrocketed over the past 5-10 years even though price guides haven't changed in over 20 years.  I used to get cards low-grade vintage from 5-20% BV.  Now, I'm looking at 20-40% BV at least.  It's really gotten bad.  All of these modern Archives and Heritage sets have done a great job distracting older collectors and enticing newer collectors while the vintage market kept going up right under people's noses.  Oooh, look at that shiny thing!!!  Me buy.  The collecting lessons from the Modern Card Crash of 1991 sure paid off.  Thanks TOPPS.  I'm off to my next vintage set.