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Posted By: T206Collector

To determine whether you are an investor in vintage baseball cards, I have devised a simple hypothetical test.

If you had inside information that the value of all of your vintage baseball cards was going to be zero some time next week, because it turns out that Jefferson Burdick and Frank Nagy all played a big joke on us and a time capsule containing 50,000,000 of every vintage baseball card ever made in gem mint condition (each triple graded by SGC, PSA and GAI as perfect) was going to be opened in Chicago next Monday.

Stripped of their relative scarcity and all of their value -- each as common as a 1990 Score Mike Devereaux -- what percentage or how many of your cards would you sell before the big opening event next Monday?

I think I would sell just about every card I own this week, except for a few that had personal value to me that is unassociated with any financial value.