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nbrazilcollecting pre war has now become more and more a function of money than anything else. With auction, card show and flea market "finds" becoming more and more things of the past, to collect most pre war sets you need to have the dough to compete with some of the big boys in the hobby. I'm looking at the prices for the recent Robert Edwards Auction and i am blown away by the prices. I can't even afford these cards now...and were still two weeks away from the auction ending date.
You can probably save some money by buying raw or REALLY looking hard (i.e. going to shows, searchin ebay everyday, talking to dealers and collectors)...but even that requires money (travel) and time...which some of us with full time jobs and a family cant afford. This is nothing against collectors with the income to buy anything they want...good for them...but it leaves us average collectors in the dust. It's like the housing market in California!