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Originally Posted by Hankphenom
I think both things are true: a lot of cards and memorabilia has dried up (collected up) and getting tougher and tougher to find, AND there is lots more to be discovered and put into the marketplace. But think of cards and how rare major "finds" are these days, and that provides a clue as to the relative percentages of stuff found and stuff yet to be. Thousands of dealers and collectors have been beating the bushes for 50 years now, and few people in the general population don't know that grandpa's old cards and stuff is worth something, but that doesn't mean there still aren't old trunks in attics and basements that no one has opened in decades, so that aspect of the hobby is not over yet, but getting less frequent. Soon it will pretty much be the recycling of collections on the selling side, if we're not there already.
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Agree on all counts... most has probably been rooted out by now, but no doubt some rare/early stuff is still hiding in peoples' attics, basements, etc.
Some of it may require a "minor miracle" in order to be uncovered... like the Dean Brothers Ad Sign that was found behind an interior wall, and being used for insulation.
