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Eric BrehmI think the market for vintage baseball cards will remain strong over the long term as long as there are more new people coming in to the hobby, than there are those who are getting out. And as long as there are more current collectors who are adding to their collections rather than down-sizing. Most of those decisions won't be based on a desire to make money (or to avoid losing money), but rather on the continuing desire, for whatever reasons people may have, to own and view these old cardboard swatches. Some may wish to maintain a connection to their childhood, or to baseball history, while others may be motivated by an aesthetic appreciation for the miniature works of art that came in tobacco or gum packages, or simply by a basic quasi-obsessive desire to collect things. How that will all shake out over the coming years, I have no idea.