Thoughts on T206 Hoarding/Creating scarcities

[sago]

IIRC, Don Lepore (dealer from NJ) had 3 Wagners in the late 70's.

[Koufax32fan]

I am only looking to buy 1 of the Pelty horizontals, for a "fair" price. I am in no hurry.

I don't understand the idea of hoarding, just to hoard. I do have some duplicates - one might be offcenter, one might have better registry, and I just have not found the right one. I am trying to find all of the poses for the Old Judge Doc Oberlander, but that is not hoarding.

A number of years back Ken Holtzman worked at our local JCC so I bought a 100+ lot of his cards on eBay. I thought he might want to hand them out to kids; he wasn't interested. I don't think of that as hoarding. Over time I have been giving them away. Who wants or needs fifteen 1977 Holtzman cards (look at the stache). The kids seem to like to have cards from the 70's (at least for a few minutes).

Is the motivation for hoarding really to try to corner the market and gain some economic advantage? Even the Hunt Brothers learned that is hard to do (or maybe it was the fact that they leveraged themselves to the hilt to buy all that silver). So, who is the guy buying cards of Titus or Pelty on margin?

[Cardboard Junkie]

Originally Posted by sago

IIRC, Don Lepore (dealer from NJ) had 3 Wagners in the late 70's.

Source on this please?Dave.

[vintagechris]

I estimate 3to 4K of each card still in circulation. You might be able to come up with a good estimate if you could estimate the number of people who collect the set possibly?

[sago]

Originally Posted by Cardboard Junkie

Source on this please?Dave.

There was an article in one of the trade papers, either Baseball Hobby News or SCD, that also had a picture of him holding all 3.

David