Selling 80% of your collection for ‘52 Mantle - would you?

[Balticfox]

Originally Posted by packs

While I understand the sentiment this seems like a strange way to view your collection.

Huh?! What's strange about acquiring only what you like and therefore not wanting to part with it? Granted, a very small part of my collection (<3%) may consist of cards that I now regard as peripheral to my interests but overall I take real delight in what's in my binders.

Originally Posted by packs

I don’t know how long you’ve been collecting but I’ve been collecting since I was 8 or 10 years old.... I have cards I bought when I was 10....

I collected cards as a kid between the ages of seven and thirteen but I paid only five cents a pack at the time or won them in flinging games. Those cards got scattered with the wind before I even finished ninth grade.

I've been re-amassing the cards from my childhood (and now many more) since 1979. But like I say, I've bought only those I wanted. As individual cards these were all generally affordable decades ago although of course I couldn't afford too many all at once. The main problem in those early days was finding the cards I wanted so I could only buy what was available in three card shops. (That's still the case for Post cards in nice condition.)

I've written up my card collecting story here:

https://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=353515

For me the thought of trading even a minor part of my card collection for a single card is bizarre.